The NFL recently conducted a study on concussions, farming the work out to the University of Michigan, and I guess they didn't like the returns. See, Michigan said, yes, you can get brain damage playing football.
So the NFL has decided they'll do their own damn test and prove that taking a beating to your head for 10 years is perfectly safe.
The league's Committee on Concussions is currently conducting a long-term study on the effects of head injuries on NFL players, and even though it won't be finished for several more years, pretty much every non-quack in America is already calling this study utter BS.
From the New York Times:
Every independent expert in epidemiology and neurology contacted by The New York Times cited at least one of the following issues: that the study's paucity of subjects will leave it unable to find any statistically significant difference in dementia rates; that a study financed by the N.F.L. and run by its committee doctors cannot be considered trustworthy; and that Dr. Ira Casson, the league's primary voice in discrediting all outside evidence, should not personally be conducting all of the neurological examinations.
Casson's already said in the past that there's no connection between NFL player concussions and dementia, so, um, yeah. That's the guy responsible for this study.
I mean honestly, why take 2 or 3 years to do the study? Just come out tomorrow and say getting repeatedly hit on the head for years does no harm to your brain. Because that's exactly what you're going to say. Don't waste my f****** time and do BS studies for years, you assholes.
Obviously, the goal here is that the NFL just wants to get a study out there that covers their butts to a degree while ex-NFL players continue to die at 50 from symptoms that look suspiciously like dementia and brain damage.
By the way, have I mentioned before how the NFL seems to be taking hints from the tobacco industry? Oh, I have? Well, pardon me for saying that again.
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