Crackpot Professor says Metal Kills, Not Bad Parents - Top Story of 07
12/24/07
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[originally published 07/27/07](BW&BK) [here is an interesting story that demonstrates the problems with academics and funding such crackpots] Most heavy metal songs are about murder and suicide, the Serbsky State Research Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry professor Fyodor Kondratyev opines. "Having researched 700 most popular heavy metal songs revealed that half of them is about murder, 7 percent is positive about suicide, and 35 percent preaches a variety of Satanist ideologies", Kondratyev said in his interview published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily on Monday. He shared with the journalists that according to the American National Education Association every year near 6,000 young Americans kill themselves under the influence of music like that.-
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