Proof or you are an idiot.

She's a member of the UK government and she wants to talk about acting maturely??

Maybe she should be looking at the Labour Party at the moment if she wants to find a group of people who are blissfully lost in the 'booming buzzing confusion of the small child.'

Please.  I've met plenty of adults who behave like children and who don't play video games.

Ever listen to the arguments between fans of two rival sports teams?  Their logic and temperment is comparable to that of a 5th grader.

How about the mud-slinging campaigns of politicans?

Or, better yet, ever read or listen to one of JT's temper tantrums?

Adults are just as bad as children, they just use bigger words.

she is a moron who doesnt know what she is talking about..Nuff said

Standards to be in politics: You must be a wishy-washy hypocrite.

Thus she is definately a politician. However in this case, shows EXTREME hypocrisy! I mean endorsing a game a year ago and now is on the anti-game phase. Only a year? Yeeeeesh

"infantilising people's brains"

What pseudo-intellectual nonsense.

Well no shit. Too much of anything is bad.

Typical House of Lords member. They like to throw big words around because they assume the great unwashed will be sufficiently intimidated by their obviously superior intelligence and education and therefore wont call them on their bullshit and hypocrisy. The big poo-poo heads.

Meh.  I read her stance as an example of 'how will our wonderful alpha children learn to be superior if they don't have lots of omegas around to be better then!'

Any technology that allows the 'looked down upon' to build social networks of their own rather then be in thier proper place at the bottom of the pile tends to get lots of this kinda of attack.

Hey guys, go to the link that GP posted. It shows a dark figure playing a game in an extremely dark, unusually green room, as if to say that all gamers sit in their mom's green tinted basement playing golf games all day.

Wait, wait, don't overreact too quickly. You should read between the lines before blaming this Baroness of anything. If someone is to blame, it's the article's author, who did a very, very poor job.

First, there is only ONE quote about... hey, it's not even about video games ! It's about "screen technologies". Granted, it can be games, but it can also be TV or the Internet. In the article, you have absolutely no information about the rest of her speech, nor about the context of this quote... and why has this quote been singled out, anyway ?

Second, there is the title : "Video games slow maturity". "Video games", really ? She's talking about "screen technologies", remember ? There's no way you can deduce such a bullshit from a single quote.

Third, remember Michael Hoechsmann. The guy who protested against Army of Two, calling it "barbaric" (remember that GP story ? http://gamepolitics.com/2008/02/29/prof-game-industry-barbaric-continually-chooses-violent-themes/ ). This guy is also a big defender of video games in general, including Bully or James Paul Gee's book about video games and education. But one quote about Army of Two has been singled out of context by a journalist, and all of a sudden it made him become an enemy of the "barbaric video game industry", which wasn't what he said at all. As a result, he's been cyber-lynched by angry gamers, who didn't care about what was his real message.

So I maintain what I said about this : "we definitely cannot trust mainstream media, not only because of the sensationalistic way they portray things, but also because of the way they select and interpret quotes. So when someone is interviewed about video games, we may have to ask him directly if he really said and meant what he said (remember Frank Borelli last year)."

Remember, then : the problem is not what Baroness Greenfield said, it's what ABC News said she said. Therefore, if you manage to get into contact with her, before saying anything, tell her about this article and ask her if this is what she really meant, and anyway, what did she really say on her speaking tour.

Thanks for listening.

There's only ONE Baroness I listen to.

HAIL COBRA!

---You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.

Thing is, too much salt is dangerous, and yet no salt whatsoever is equally dangerous.

Like all things, it's easy to say 'too much' is bad, because, as other people have pointed out, too much of anything is bad.