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Brainwashed The Bad Science Behind CTE and the Plot to Destroy Football

Merril Hoge

The outcry surrounding CTE is missing something critical: the science to justify it. When improper concussion care forced star NFL running back Merril Hoge into early retirement in 1994, research on football-related head injuries wasn't a priority. At the time, football was heavily influenced by a...

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The guest promoted his new book which discussed CTE, where he expressed skepticism about the existing narrative and research surrounding it. He indicated that the science was still young and that the media had perhaps gotten ahead of the actual scientific findings regarding CTE and its causes.

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Merril Hoge has a new book out uh i think i think we explained our side pretty pretty well in the interview but basically sum it up we think that maro hodge the the plot part of his book is crazy so t...

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The guest promoted his new book which discussed CTE, where he expressed skepticism about the existing narrative and research surrounding it. He indicated that the science was still young and that the media had perhaps gotten ahead of the actual scientific findings regarding CTE and its causes.

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Merril Hoge has a new book out uh i think i think we explained our side pretty pretty well in the interview but basically sum it up we think that maro hodge the the plot part of his book is crazy so that makes him a little crazy that kind of takes away from what probably are some decent points about cte being an ongoing thing

We don't know what causes it and we don't know what it causes we have cases where people have played football people who have played sports and people have not played sports and not had concussions and not had history ahead trauma and i'm like well how can we only hear about the football ones right or the ones in sports

The science is still very young so to your to your credit from your your perspective you are clearly right the science is still here observing and the media is out here right

The scariest thing in my mind is players the suicide rate going up and with players which has happened since 2009 and the biggest problem to me is guys are self-diagnosing cte when we don't even know how to diagnose it ourselves in living human beings

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