Chris Johns

But I think she's absolutely right.

The tech does exist to solve this problem.

But the way the harms that these social media platforms are doing, I think are blindly obvious to all of us.

If you haven't noticed them, then frankly, you're living under a rock.

It's corrupting our kids.

It's corrupting our political sphere.

The way in which political debate is conducted these days is frankly ridiculous.

I've described the UK, for example.

We're no longer a serious country.

the way in which we change prime minister every 10 minutes, the way in which political debate, political discussion is conducted in this country is ridiculous.

I'd like to get Shane, our old friend from Trinity College, the neuroscientist, on to talk to him about dopamine because I know that plenty of neuroscientists say that this is all to do with the dopamine hits that likes and retweets and reposts gives us and the number of people that read our stuff on Twitter and X and all the other things.

And it creates the outrage, it creates the anger, it creates the division.

And this is what feeds the little dopamine hits to which we have all, all of us become addicted.

And I think we're all going slowly mad because of all of this, or maybe quickly mad.

But I do think that the Royal Colleges of Medicine are on to something.

And I think future generations will look back on what we're doing to ourselves in the same way that we look back on generations of smokers.

Absolutely.

The fattest comment, is it, Jim?

Pardon?

Is this a fattest comment?