Another bad case of science?
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I love football and I love science, but there is a real problem with believing every scientific report that comes out, mainly because the jargon involved is beyond our understanding until it's "interpreted" for us. We rely on people in the know to break it down for us. As it turns out, as many here already suspect, it's a hit or miss situation. Apparently, the CTE study from a few years back, might very well have been sensationalized to catch more attention than it deserved. I didn't actually read the study and still haven't. Biology and neurology just doesn't pique my interests. But, if true, this proves that even highly publicized accepted scientific studies aren't necessarily reliable and it hasn't been, up til now, even questioned in the public eye. I run in to this all the time when I read studies on climatology and see how ineffective the results actually are because the experiment was biased from the beginning. I understand that CTE is kind of a new term, at least for me, but if the article is true in it's claim, we are a long way from proving this is in anyway related to football. Although admittedly it makes sense from a logical argument, you still have to give a presentable set of data from an established set of parameters. Well, it appears the parameters of this experiment were complete garbage.
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didn't JT talk about losing whole sections of his life? I mean that guy was taking care of himself for all those years and he still had issues.....it's pretty clear cut
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didn't JT talk about losing whole sections of his life? I mean that guy was taking care of himself for all those years and he still had issues.....it's pretty clear cut
didn't JT talk about losing whole sections of his life? I mean that guy was taking care of himself for all those years and he still had issues.....it's pretty clear cut
On a scale of 1 to 10 how violent do you think football has made JT?
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IIRC, the study linked CTE to extreme events of violence.
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I thought most of the ill effects of CTE dealt with memory loss, only some outbursts of violence
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Well it only gets trotted out there when Seau kills himself or the wrestler kills himself and others. Either way, it's being found in non active people as well. Hard to put the blame on football or contact when that is understood. Not to say you're incorrect, it's just a dramatic leap without a proper experiment. Very well could be for all we know.
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