[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

well they have age ratings on video games so "they" must be worried that violent games have an effect on kids

Except those ratings aren't based on scientific finding. No certificates from all the way back to 1912 when certificates in the UK first became a thing to now are based on anything other than common sense to try to stop kids from watching and playing stuff deemed inappropriate for them. At first the only two certificates were U which is the same as it is today and A for content that was aimed at adults but could be seen by children if accompanied by an adult (the third certificate to be added was one for horror). None of it is based on anything other than common sense, not scientific research.

I can't say for certain but I think video games were always rated with a similar system to that of films in the UK but in America, there wasn't a ratings system in place for games until the early 90's and that was down to nothing more than the video game moral panic that was stirred up by the media and politicians who wanted to scare the middle classes into buying newspapers and voting. It, again, isn't based on scientific findings either.

The reasons why ratings exist as they do are pure sociological rather than scientific.

Originally Posted by parmnion

I say that's not true due to the amount of money generated from film and gaming. ..but people laugh when I say that the industry is to big to rock. .seemingly only governments are above that ridicule.

Because you're only saying it, not because you have reason to, but because you don't want to admit you're wrong and the things you are spouting is pretty much word for word an anti-vaxxer argument.

They refuse to believe science over their own belief because they they think the science is corrupt and they alone know better. You're putting on the tinfoil hat because you think you know better than science because believing in a non-existent conspiracy is easier than it is to admit you are wrong.

There's so many politicians and powerful organisations out there that would love to be able to turn video games into the boogeyman and have the scientific evidence to back it up that, if such evidence did exist, it would be everywhere. It would be common knowledge, the fact it isn't should tell you everything.