09/26/2017 – CTE Brain Damaged NFL players

Tuesday 09/26/2017 – 7:30pm EDT, 4:30pm PDT (Show Notes)

(Show starts at 90 minutes into schedule block.)

Mad Scientists Exposed

Tuesdays & Fridays – 7:30pm EDT, 4:30pm PDT

Headlines on CTE “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy”

CNN – 04/26/2017 – 5 things to know about CTE

CNN – 09/26/2017 – Researchers identify CTE biomarker that may lead to diagnosis while alive

 09/25/2017 – Cowboys Players, Owner Jerry Jones Link Arms and Kneel Before National Anthem

09/26/2017 – New Survey: 64 Percent Of Americans Say NFL Players Should Stand For Anthem

NIH.gov – Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Athletes: Progressive Tauopathy following Repetitive Head Injury

abstract of NIH paper on CTE

 

So the NIH says we’ve known since the 1920’s that people with repeated head injuries develop permanent brain damage and permanent behavioral/memory issues, but until today 09/26/2017, nobody ever even suggested we should be able to diagnose it before death and autopsy.   Has CTE research been suppressed for nearly 100 years, because football is too profitable??

screenshot of NY Daily News front pageNYDailyNews 03/22/2016 – Cowboys owner Jerry Jones: No link between CTE and NFL

So in reply, the NY Daily News actually called the NFLwillfully ignorant of the connection between football and CTE!

NYDailyNews 03/26/2016 – A blow to the NFL’s head: hiding the evidence of brain damage.

 

09/25/2017 – Louisiana lawmakers question New Orleans Saints state funding after players protest

FYI – “Gentle Giant” Michael Brown, built like a football player, used the classic football headbutt attack move to get himself shot in Ferguson, MO. 

… after committing strong arm robbery and roughing up a shop owner of much smaller stature, ala O.J. Simpson

Did Michael Brown have CTE?

 

 

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