Once again the Wii is being accused of being a murder simulator, pronouncing that the motions needed to perform actions could lead to muscle memory and therefore the killing of people everywhere...or, you know, it's just a game controller and nothing more and nothing less.

From the article:

While the Nintendo Wii has been riding a wave of nonstop positive press since its November, 2006 launch, a physician and a child psychologist in Boston are concerned that the system may train younger players for violence.

A video news report on WBZ features Dr. Michael Rich of Children’s Hospital:

You are learning the muscle memory necessary to do those acts, to stab someone, to chop someone, to shoot someone. It’s one step closer to a virtual reality in which you are actually doing these things to people.

We see the folks that use more violent media tend to be more violent. What we’re seeing [in MRI brain studies] is that on some level the virtual violence is equated by our brain the same as real violence.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com