A it turns out, the panic was all probably for nothing
Photo: Christian Vierig/Getty Images Last week, countless people across the world simultaneously tilted their heads forward and rubbed their forefingers into the back of their skulls, anxiously feeling around for a, uh, horn. According to new research, written up by the Washington Post, young people have been sprouting “hornlike spikes,” a.k.a. “bone spurs,” from the backs of their skulls owing to the incessant tilting forward of the head to stare at their phones.
When asked by Quartz whether there was a conflict of interest at hand, Shahar responded, “I have been largely inactive in that front over the years of my research, and this research does not discuss any particularly related intervention methods.” But experts still aren’t convinced of Shahar’s findings — and understandably so.
“If you really wanted to get a look at the effects of smartphone use on neck health, you’d want data from the general population, not people who were already concerned about neck or back pain,” Quartz reports. Lovely! Now we can go back to being irresponsibly codependent on our iPhones without a single concern about sharp horns jutting out of our skulls.
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