{"id":1905,"date":"2016-07-29T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T21:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2016-07-29T16:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T21:21:53","slug":"the-new-league-of-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"The New ‘League of Denial’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking\u00a0a page from the industry’s playbook<\/a>, the NHL now appears<\/a> to be the new “League of Denial.” In a 24-page missive<\/a>, filed in reply to Senator Blumenthal’s letter<\/a>, Gary Bettman and the NHL made clear that they believe CTE is bogus. Not only that, Bettman hedged his bets and asserted that warning about CTE is dangerous and can lead to suicide. Seriously:<\/p>\n

To be clear, the NHL and NHLPA’s position is that a \u201cwarning\u201d about CTE is, at best, premature and also potentially dangerous (as discussed further below). […]<\/p>\n

This, sadly, is precisely the type of tragedy that can result when plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers and their media consultants jump ahead of the medical community and assert, without reliable scientific support, that there is a causal link between concussions and CTE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The medical community was appalled<\/a>, and so am I. I was recently quoted in The Globe and Mail<\/a>,<\/p>\n

\u201cI think his letter is outrageous,\u201d said Paul D. Anderson, a Kansas City lawyer who has represented many former NFL players in concussion lawsuits and runs NFLconcussionlitigation.com. \u201cFrankly, I\u2019m shocked that it was even published. It does a terrible disservice from a public-health perspective.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I also joined Naylor & Landsberg to discuss my outrage: http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/video\/bettman-denies-link-between-cte-and-concussions~920033<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking\u00a0a page from the industry’s playbook, the NHL now appears to be the new “League of Denial.” In a 24-page missive, filed in reply to Senator Blumenthal’s letter, Gary Bettman and the NHL made clear that they believe CTE is bogus. Not only that, Bettman hedged his bets and asserted that warning about CTE is […]<\/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":[555,29,16,556,268,560,196,557,13,558,194,559],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905"}],"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=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflconcussionlitigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}