From Tony Park
As a computer gamer and hobbyist computer-game author, I was disappointed to see video gaming included in a list of apparently self-evidently bad things in your article on evolutionary traps (15 March, p 43). You might just as well have included fish-keeping or railway modelling.
Playing board games is generally considered a wholesome family activity, and television and film-viewing are mainstream. Why does New Scientist succumb to portraying a combination of the two as the bogeyman of human hobbies?
Dunlop, Ayrshire, UK
