A few years ago, publications began to appear on the Internet telling about the dangers of a popular animated series for children. We checked how reasonable these suspicions are.
The fact that the animated series can be potentially dangerous for small spectators was especially actively said in 2016-2017. Some resources, including Internet magazines "School of Life" and one of the Tatarstan news Portals, It was reported that, according to the study of scientists from Harvard University, Pippe Pig could cause autism in children. This is allegedly due to the fact that the heroine of the animated series “has a very high opinion of herself, very impolite, inadequately behaves, does what he wants, regardless of the opinion of others, inelerant, arrogant, proud.” The study began to quote quite quickly users "VKontakte" And "Yandex.Zen".
Apparently, Russian Internet users were “inspired” with American news. Arguments that coincide with the given domestic authors can be found in article Newsly editions prepared in June 2016. Two months later, similar publications appeared on the portals Healthy Tips World And Morning News USA. In the publications on Facebook Mention And the name of the head of this research project is Mark Vildemberg.
We were not able to find not only the text of the study conducted by Wildemberg and his colleagues, but also such a scientist. To begin with, the earliest texts about Pippe and Autism say that it does not work at Harvard University, but at Harvard University. It, unlike The oldest The US Higher Education does not exist. Perhaps this is a typo, but then there should be at least one mention of such a scientist on the website of a real Harvard University. Alas, it was not possible to find him among the employees. In the system of searching for scientific publications Google Scholar, Wildemberg's work on autism also Not found. Head of the Department of Psychology of Harvard University reported The Washington Post, that he does not know anything about such a study.
