3 ms·

> the evidence of people in other states/countries is not good enough for them, so they have to [...] Did you make that reasoning up? Guess we should only have

> the evidence of people in other states/countries is not good enough for them, so they have to [...] Did you make that reasoning up? Guess we should only have one study for anything, because any successive studiers means the first one wasn't good enough for them.

stevenwoo 9y ago
Omalu first found the syndrome in 2002 and published his studies of dead NFL players brains in 2005 and the NFL denied any link for ten years, sort of like the UIL of Texas does now. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/meet-the-real-dr-bennet-omalu/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/meet-the-real-dr-... A more recent study confirmed the prevalence of CTE with autopsies of 100 NFL players. https://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/539198429/study-cte-found-in-nearly-all-donated-nfl-player-brains https://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/539198429/study-cte-found-in-... There's already been studies that showed repeated low impact hits on the head (ala soccer) create a deficit in cognitive ability in young people - http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/health/brain-damage-dementia-cte-soccer-football-study/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/health/brain-damage-dementia-c... The only reason to keep asking for more studies is to stall so they can make money off of high school athletes, high school football in Texas in a racket as documented in the book Friday Night Lights (not the movie or TV show). Also, if you don't believe that book, James Michener wrote a book 20 years earlier called Sports in America that documents the same phenomena across America in all amateur athletics. Also I grew up in Texas and no matter how podunk the town was, they spent bank on high school football stadiums then and tens of millions now. You wouldn't understand this if you dont know this.
- kodablah 9y ago
  I am also Texan and I agree with everything you wrote in this comment. It's that you made a guess that the reason the study was commissioned was because the other ones weren't good enough for them. Which I have not seen anywhere. This new study "won't be good enough them" either. We can demonize the state handling of the issue while also praising any commissioning of studies in the area.

stevenwoo 9y ago

Omalu first found the syndrome in 2002 and published his studies of dead NFL players brains in 2005 and the NFL denied any link for ten years, sort of like the UIL of Texas does now. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/meet-the-real-dr-bennet-omalu/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/meet-the-real-dr-... A more recent study confirmed the prevalence of CTE with autopsies of 100 NFL players. https://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/539198429/study-cte-found-in-nearly-all-donated-nfl-player-brains https://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/539198429/study-cte-found-in-... There's already been studies that showed repeated low impact hits on the head (ala soccer) create a deficit in cognitive ability in young people - http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/health/brain-damage-dementia-cte-soccer-football-study/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/health/brain-damage-dementia-c... The only reason to keep asking for more studies is to stall so they can make money off of high school athletes, high school football in Texas in a racket as documented in the book Friday Night Lights (not the movie or TV show). Also, if you don't believe that book, James Michener wrote a book 20 years earlier called Sports in America that documents the same phenomena across America in all amateur athletics. Also I grew up in Texas and no matter how podunk the town was, they spent bank on high school football stadiums then and tens of millions now. You wouldn't understand this if you dont know this.

kodablah 9y ago
I am also Texan and I agree with everything you wrote in this comment. It's that you made a guess that the reason the study was commissioned was because the other ones weren't good enough for them. Which I have not seen anywhere. This new study "won't be good enough them" either. We can demonize the state handling of the issue while also praising any commissioning of studies in the area.