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

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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Concussion and Head Impacts in Sport

The debate about causality was obviously a central theme at the conference. There's also a commercial interest in a liability legal one, so it's complicated. No sport should be saying yes, we're okay with them - they create unnecessary fear. A former American football player called Jared Odrick is doing a documentary on this. And his angle is to expose the other side as unethical fear-mongering and so forth. It'll be interesting to see that perspective.

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