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> Researchers are working to develop a test for people still alive so they can begin to study the disease more comprehensively. What more is there to study? Ge
by aviv 9y ago
> Researchers are working to develop a test for people still alive so they can begin to study the disease more comprehensively.
What more is there to study? Getting knocked in the head for years is bad for you. Do we really need scientists to tell us this? Who in their right mind thinks getting hit in the head on a regular basis will have no negative affects on their well-being? The solution is not some new treatment - it's to... uhm, stop getting your head knocked on a regular basis.
- coliveira 9y agoThat will be the logical thing to do, but you know... money... the NFL doesn't seem to care about anything else.
- aceofspad3s 9y agoWhy blame the NFL? It's not like the players are doing it for free.
- saboot 9y agoBecause the NFL could "easily" change the rules to minimize the effects of CTE. Easily is in quotes because it's easy except for a fear of losing money.
- slg 9y agoIt really can't. There are many potential smaller changes that could shave a percentage point or two of the risk factor (and the NFL has already made a handful of those type of changes), but the game of football is setup in such a way that head trauma is a guaranteed byproduct. As other pointed out, the cigarette argument is apt. You can make things marginally safer, but there is never going to be such a thing as a "safe cigarette".
- aceofspad3s 9y agoIt's like a game of gladiators... You can't take the fun off of it.
- coliveira 9y agoBecause the NFL is making the bulk of the money and they control the game. Who else should be the obvious group to take action here?