The devious, duplicitous, scandalous NFL
From (OTL: NFL tried to exert influence over brain study):
"Three of the NFL's top health and safety officers confronted the National Institutes of Health last June after the NIH selected a Boston University researcher to lead a major study on football and brain disease, Outside the Lines has learned.
The new information contradicts denials by the NFL and a foundation it partners with that the league had any involvement or input in the fate of a $16 million study to find methods to diagnose -- in living patients -- chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease found in dozens of deceased NFL players....
..."If this money does have strings, then the NFL needs to own up to the fact that it's attempting to control the science," (U.S. Congressman Jackie) Speier said. "I'm deeply troubled by the conduct of the NFL, and I also question the arrangement where a 'nonprofit' arm of the NIH accepts corporate donations in a way that enables researchers to be bullied by corporate interests.""
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So the NFL tries to control the science by hiring Exponent in the Deflategate saga. And it lies about its involvement in the CTE study and it turns out that they're trying to control the science here as well.
The NFL - it's a phenomenal sport and gigantic business, but my goodness it's run by a bunch of absolute crooks and underhanded slime balls. Despicable, really.
From (OTL: NFL tried to exert influence over brain study):
"Three of the NFL's top health and safety officers confronted the National Institutes of Health last June after the NIH selected a Boston University researcher to lead a major study on football and brain disease, Outside the Lines has learned.
The new information contradicts denials by the NFL and a foundation it partners with that the league had any involvement or input in the fate of a $16 million study to find methods to diagnose -- in living patients -- chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease found in dozens of deceased NFL players....
..."If this money does have strings, then the NFL needs to own up to the fact that it's attempting to control the science," (U.S. Congressman Jackie) Speier said. "I'm deeply troubled by the conduct of the NFL, and I also question the arrangement where a 'nonprofit' arm of the NIH accepts corporate donations in a way that enables researchers to be bullied by corporate interests.""
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So the NFL tries to control the science by hiring Exponent in the Deflategate saga. And it lies about its involvement in the CTE study and it turns out that they're trying to control the science here as well.
The NFL - it's a phenomenal sport and gigantic business, but my goodness it's run by a bunch of absolute crooks and underhanded slime balls. Despicable, really.
