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Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage
ideonexus writes "NFL Linebacker Junior Seau's suicide this week bears a striking similarity to NFL Safety Dave Duerson's suicide last year, who shot himself in the chest so that doctors could study his brain, where they found the same chronic traumatic encephalopathy that has been found in the brains of 20 other dead football players. Malcom Gladwell stirred up controversy in 2009 by comparing professional football to dog fighting for the trauma the game inflicts on players' brains. With mounting evidence that the repeated concussions football players receive during their careers causing a lifetime of brain problems, it raises serious concerns about America's most popular sport and ethical questions for its fanbase."
Just because you see a bunch of people who seem brain damaged anywhere there is evidence of football does not mean that you've found "evidence of football causing brain damage."
People with brain cells to lose will avoid this component failure mode anyway. Now please excuse me while I'm destroying my brain with programming.
Ezekiel 23:20
Regardless, football remains a normal, healthy, wholesome activity. Video games, on the other hand, still turn out maladjusted serial killers.
--- Math illiteracy affects 8 out of every 5 people.
The south might rise up a second time if we told them no more high school football.
If we're lucky. This time around we might be able to let them go.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
and with the millions of dollars they are paid, how many of them donated to research?
Well from the summary:
Malcom Gladwell stirred up controversy in 2009 by comparing professional football to dog fighting for the trauma the game inflicts on players' brains, but with mounting evidence that the repeated concussions football players receive during their careers causing a lifetime of brain problems
I recall Michael Vick had quite the experiment set up to study this but, of course, PETA shut him down.
Okay, now I'm going to hell officially.
My work here is dung.
I asked them to compare they're playbooks to ours (end of discussion).
*ahem*
they are paid to kill each other on the field of battle, not to tickle each other
We need to revise the rule list for lingerie football to include this, immediately.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
soccer players' brains next.
What ARE the effects on the brain for prolonged and repeated sessions of lying on the grass pretending to have a knee injury?
You can't take the sky from me...