Interview with Dr. Bennet Omalu – the risk of high-impact contact sports(startribune.com)
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Interview with Dr. Bennet Omalu – the risk of high-impact contact sports
http://www.startribune.com/concussion-doctor-played-by-will-smith-tackled-cte-in-football-players-head-on/369467532/
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Pathology resident doing research here. Dr. Omalu is a very spiritual person and I've been impressed how persuasive that spiritual part of his discussion can be outside the scientific community. He did important work, but pushing the findings out beyond his cohort was what made the difference. I think there's something to learn there.
"Who will train all the NFL stars?" That's really what it boils down to. Training the million dollar gladiators for our modern society. Living vicariously through innocent children. Parental adrenaline rushes. It's sick. We should just ban it. It's worse than corporal punishment and that'll get a teacher fired but we let kids pummel each other on the field and it's fine. It's ridiculous. Those kids aren't choosing that for themselves. We won't let them drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, but we'll let them do that to themselves to get a smile out of mommy and daddy. It's awful!
I've gone from super excited about life and the future when I sat down at my computer to pessimistic and frustrated with society.
I've gone from super excited about life and the future when I sat down at my computer to pessimistic and frustrated with society.
not sure why the downvotes. But do look up. The world is getting better, despite the media noise. They're just trying to drum up advertising. Most of Omalu's answers in the article are very uplifting.
Honestly, lack of exercise probably shortens life spans by a lot more than what high impact sports does.
We can't ban everything. We can make things safer.
We can't ban everything. We can make things safer.
well we know who was always picked last