Probably because Twitter is doing terrible things to our language. The 140 character limit forces people to make terrible usage choices. Is that 140 exactly? It might be. In which case, Kaplan was making sure the tweet was understandable and making bad choices.
Right. I agree this is the most corrupt sports organization out there right now. Now we will once again get a press release with Goodell talking about integrity and protecting the shield. It's getting laughable.
This is where I hate the term CTE. His symptoms and pathology were both consistent with ALS. It is conceivable, and there is epedimiological evidence to support (check studies on the swedish registry), that head trauma is a risk factor for ALS. Despite what some think, known single genetic factors (e.g. ARV4) account for a minority of cases.
For someone who is concerned about the effect of people pushing agendas, you are awfully casual in declaring this to be "bullshit" without actually studying those results.
The presence of tau phosphorylation is a hallmark of many dementia types. The likely reason is that tau phosphorylation is part of a chain reaction involving apoptosis (IIRC) of neurons. You see it in many dementias.
Well Exponent is in the business of influencing outcomes in the favor of their clients. No surprises there but it doesn't make them any less slimy. I wonder whether their reputation is any less favorable in the general public's eyes as a result of the bullshit they have pulled on behalf of tobacco, automotive and the NFL among others. I certainly wouldn't feel good about hiring them or working for them for that matter.
There's nothing "slimy" about funding scientific research for reasons other than altruism.
Minor point, but it was secondhand smoke. We've known for 100 years that smoking is harmful to health, but the harm to bystanders has only been understood relatively recently, which is why bans on public smoking didn't take off until the 1990s. My understanding is Exponent was doing work for tobacco companies at the height of that controversy; it's not like they were (to my knowledge) doing work questioning the link between smoking and lung cancer.
Jeff Samardzija agrees. He was pretty inarguably a better WR than pitcher at age 21.
Very illustrative slip there.
Placebo may be the only "cure" these guys have until science improves.
Good thing marijuana may reduce the effects of head trauma (half j/k; there's about a half dozen decent articles that suggest as much).
Which makes the owners resistance to dropping it from the drug program perplexing. This is one simple way for owners to indirectly address their concussion problem.
As always, follow the money.
Well, sure. But Big Pharma ain't wonder-drugging away the post-career concussion problems of players. (If owners believe that, they are stupider than I think). And Big Pharma's involvement in the treatment of current players (i.e. Toradol, etc.) is another potentially land-mined area for owners in the future. So while i get that advertising relationships are important, I am having trouble understanding why billionaires (and especially the actual billionaires, not the trustfundistas) are so lax and careless about this when they could take simple steps that would show them in a more sympathetic, "we tried!" light when this goes to court again. As I said, I can't imagine they are stupid enough to think themselves judgement proof even in the wake of their settlement. Nor do I buy that advertisers and product partners would keep them from getting off the tracks with this freight train coming down the tracks. The NBA owners - who have the same advertisers/partners - saw what was coming and got out of the way. Jerry Jones gets it. And he's supposedly very influential with his fellow owners. Is it just old-school prejudice about weed and stoners?
My reply is beyond the scope of the thread -- feel free to move somewhere else.
The owners are largely 60+ year old conservative white men, and the players are largely young black men. I wouldn't rule it out.
This really should be its own thread.
Now, I appreciate the study admitting the numbers may skew a bit heavy:
But this is still even uglier than I think most people thought.
Congrats to Comm Ave for this study. Not only are we the hub of education and the City of Champions, but a combination of both as well. Maybe this news explains the rash of the smart players retiring early recently.
