chris98251":1t6lvaa0 said:RolandDeschain":1t6lvaa0 said:I strongly detest the title of this thread, and of the article itself. All the brains they studied were purposely donated for research; i.e., they were given by players who already knew they had mental problems from playing. It's like going into a cancer ward at a hospital and basing your incidence rate on that.
I'm not downplaying CTE in any way, but damn, this is presented like 99% of NFL players get CTE and that's not even close to true...But people will pick up on it and ignorantly trumpet those numbers, contributing to the ever-growing dilemma of fake news and just inaccurate news in general.
So you have actual positive proof that 99 percent of Pro Football players do not have CTE in anyway shape or form and degree to argue your open ended disclaimer statement.
That isn't what he was saying. He was saying that the article was reckless in the way it presented the results of the study. People misusing information to create the narrative they want only serves to water down the actual issues. This has always been a problem, but recently it is rapidly becoming worse.
I personally believe that it is likely that the data from study probably comes close to approximating what the article eludes to and the article does provide a single paragraph disclaimer as to what the study actually represents. The rest of the article is written with the feel that the data accurately represents football related CTE occurrence rate.