Academics Rebuke WHO’s Video Game Addiction Classification

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March 1, 2018 – The 36 “internationally renowned and respected mental health experts, leading social scientists and academics from research centers and universities” in publishing a new research paper arguing against the WHO. The paper, titled “A Weak Scientific Basis for Gaming Disorder: Let us err on the side of caution,” going further in-depth to all the aforementioned points, can be found here at the link. “Worldwide opposition to the WHO’s controversial and unproven classification of ‘Gaming Disorder’ continues to grow,” Michael D. Gallagher, president and CEO of the ESA said. “The WHO’s process lacks transparency, is deeply flawed and lacks objective scientific support. We urge this process to be halted.”
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