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The Concussion Debate: Can Playing Contact Sports Cause Brain Damage?

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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Smoking Doesn't Cause CTE

"It wasn't just the human collateral. And you know, and so it gets ugly, right? When we walked, we had a coffee break at the meeting," he says. "And then we walk into the hall now for Paper Nine." 'This is everyone's excited because I want to see what these experts are going to say' He adds that most of the people in the room have got no conflict. They're just genuinely interested in the welfare of athletes who play these sports. But they were filming these acts. It's actually quite offensive to do that in a scientific forum.'

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