{"id":1855,"date":"2016-03-15T08:41:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:44:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:44:26","slug":"the-groundbreaking-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"The “Groundbreaking” Admission"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a roundtable yesterday on Capitol Hill<\/a>, the NFL’s top brass on player safety, Jeff Miller, acknowledged that “certainly…there’s a link” between football and CTE. But the admission did not come without equivocation.<\/p>\n

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Rather, it followed the industry’s playbook<\/a> of perpetuating doubt: “But there are also a number of questions that come with that<\/a>,” Miller went on to say.<\/p>\n

Ergo<\/em>\u00a0you can expect that despite this admission, the NFL will continue to cast doubt<\/a> upon the unequivocal link between repetitive brain trauma and CTE. Worse still, the NFL will continue to employ and associate itself with adamant CTE deniers–such as Dr. Pellman<\/a>–and the NFL will also continue to pedal false hope to parents that playing youth tackle football is “safe.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Indeed, shortly after the hearing concluded, the NFL went on the offensive<\/a> and sought to reconcile Miller’s admission with the NFL’s playbook of doubt:<\/p>\n

He was discussing Dr. Mckee’s findings and made the additional point that a lot more questions need to be answered,\u201d NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement. \u00a0\u201cHe said that the experts should speak to the state of the science…[and he]\u00a0made the additional point that a lot more questions need to be answered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Far from being a watershed moment, this “admission” will likely be another chapter in the NFL’s obfuscation of the truth. History can be an important lesson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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At a roundtable yesterday on Capitol Hill, the NFL’s top brass on player safety, Jeff Miller, acknowledged that “certainly…there’s a link” between football and CTE. But the admission did not come without equivocation. Rather, it followed the industry’s playbook of perpetuating doubt: “But there are also a number of questions that come with that,” Miller […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[502,505,506,16,32,503,4,504,507,195],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}