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

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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CTE Causes Head Impacts, but Not Being Admitted To

There are clearly two sides here. The other side are trying to force the commitment to causality. They can argue two things to say why it's not being admitted to. One is the legal and the liability issues. If you admit to... And again, I don't understand all this. Like, my understanding of the legal thing is that you can only be responsible for managing something you knew about at the time. Right? No one really knew this until relatively recently. It looks like a COVID graph. You looked in the early part of 2020. Nothing, nothing,Nothing, nothing, nothing. Boom. That was when it was first identified in football plays,. Then suddenly people started

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