Posted on 08/09/2017 7:02:22 AM PDT by buckalfa
The physician credited with discovering Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players said that anyone who lets children play football could be held accountable for abuse.
“Someday there will be a district attorney who will prosecute for child abuse [on the football field], and it will succeed,” said Dr. Bennet Omalu at a New York Press Club talk, Sports Illustrated reported.
His remarks come shortly after a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 110 out of 111 National Football League players had evidence of CTE when their brains were examined postmortem.
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Castration at birth is the only solution.
I’d bet CTE is common in anyone who has had a active lifestyle.
An important part of this story is that the families of those players responded to the researchers doing the study. The families of the players who exhibited symptoms of brain injury would be the most likely to respond, so these results would be skewed.
If Troy Aikman, who had 11 concussions, can still call football games on TV, it shows that not everyone who plays is similarly affected.
Especially those whose ‘active lifestyle(s)’ include such things as cage fighting or boxing.
They don’t call it ‘punch-drunk’ for nothing...
I still remember fifty five years ago when members of the local high school football team, and after graduation, were drafted and rejected by the military due to football injuries.
Meanwhile, the rest of us, who did not play football, ended up in SE Asia.
Well, football does seem to get some of the kids pretty beat up. I discouraged it—my buys played hockey.
Doctor former player?
But allowing one’s child to take hormones to change them from one sex to another is NOT child abuse?
Stop using logic! JUST STOP IT!!!
Probably both are child abuse.
So sayeth former mass emailer Dr. Bennet Omalu.
Agree. You can wrap your kids in cotton balls until they are 18, if you want. Athletic competition is dangerous....some ahletics more so than others. I am glad my son played high school football. It taught him how to work with a TEAM. It taught him to follow the coach’s order or don’t play. Not bad things to learn in our PC culture. Right now, I am suffering greatly because of skiing injury from 35 years ago.....herniated disc in my lumbar area. But even knowing this now, I still would have still enjoyed skiing all those years. I guess you just need to weigh the balance of the risk with the rewards. Skiing was such an exhilaration, I wish I could still do it! (but now, bad knees too, coupled with the herniated disc.....but downhill skiing was so much FUN!)
Thanks soccer mom.
Some,including Rush,claim that this is all a leftist plot to weaken American culture.While that's clearly true with "climate science" it must be acknowledged that it very well might not be true here.
And if it's in Texas, that district attorney will likely end up swinging from a lamp post....
Probably one of those Weed prescription doctors
If they want to go there, they could focus on skiing.
How many have died skiing?
I can think of three prominent people offhand : Sonny Bono, one of the various Kennedy cousins, and actress Natasha Richardson. All died in skiing accidents.
People die every year at the Grand Canyon.
How do we mitigate every risk in life? What risks are acceptable? That to me is the heart of this sort of discussion.
But allowing one’s child to take hormones to change them from one sex to another is NOT child abuse?
Where's the study on people who played football but aren't steroid riddled behemoths? As far as I'm concerned, long term health trends of NFL players need to always be viewed through the lens of "they took steroids that push the body beyond normal human parameters for years, nothing about them is normal and none of it applies to normal people".
It's like saying people who stay at a certain motel all have bad teeth so there's something wrong with the hotel. Oh yeah, it a seedy hangout where everyone who hangs out there is a meth addict. But that's not relevant to the study.
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