Worst Science Article of The Week: Twitter Will Make You Eeevil

Quick! Grab the latest scientific study that may have something remotely to do with Twitter! Run it with a "Twitter Will Destroy Humanity!" headline! With a graphic by Hieronymus Bosch! Here's how it all started: A University of Southern California study, which is slated for publication next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition, has come to the reported conclusion that Twitter can/might/will turn humanity into a teeming mass of barbarians who engage in all matter of mass killings, wanton torturing, rape, and other atrocities. Or something. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a researcher and co-author on the study, has been quoted far and wide across the Internets with such gems as: