Growing list of former players with CTE…Duper/Dorsett (1 Viewer)

[Franknbeans]

I'll chime in only because I work with the folks who are doing this research. This research is in it's infancy as so much has been discovered just in the last 5 years. The focus here is shifting not from concussions per se but subsconcussive hits. That is, the amount of times you smack your head at forces equivalent to driving a car into a brick wall at 35 miles per hour. From what I understand, the regions of the brain where tau deposits develop are unique for CTE. As cobalt pointed out, there is much more data to be gathered before any meaningful interpretations can be made and the media has, as usual, sensationalized what little findings exist.

Awesome. Do you work for the BU group, Omalu's group, or other? I perfectly understand if you don't want to say to maintain anonimnity. One thing that would help me. Gavitt and others have explored possible mechanisms of abnormal tau aggregation in humans speculating that a cascade of events occur stemmung from axonal shearing when acceleration deceleration forces are exacted on the brain. Is it your understanding that the same cascade of metabolic events (e.g, calcium influx, mitochondrial dysfunction, etc.) can be produced by sub-concussive blows? Do you have a citation you can PM?

Thanks. Good to have someone in this thread working in this area.

Yeah, I probably shouldn't divulge too much here. I'll PM you with a couple other nuggets.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

This is getting ridiculous

Lets now discuss the vast majority of players WHO DO NOT SUFFER from this.

Followed by a discussion of cigarette smokers who never get lung cancer.

How about the overweight OL and DL. Those guys are all doomed to heart disease among other illnesses. We need to get them all on weight watchers.

Well, except the ones that protect my QBs, open up holes for my RBs and have QBs throwing to my WRs.

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=521415&hl=weight

 

[John 14:6]

I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but I wonder if it would help switching from helmets and pads that are so hard to ones that are really soft. Something like layers of bubble wrap or foam. they'd look puffy instead of sleek like the current equipment, but maybe they'd be safer.

 

[cobalt_27]

ESPN and OTL did such a shoddy job of reporting, investigating all this nonsense.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2013/11/17/Scientists-Doctors-Touting-CTE-Scans-Profiting

Excerpted...

Unbeknownst to ESPNs viewers or Sports Illustrateds readers, the doctors vouching for TauMarks science are the businessmen raking in its profits. Despite efforts to conceal ownership, clues mounted. TauMarks internet site, which omitted any information regarding ownership, shares the same web designer with the site of TauMark booster Dr. Gary Small. Does UCLAs Small, whose moneymaking ventures include a book touting a preventative cure for Alzheimers, own a part of TauMark? How about Julian Bailes? His friend Billy West, who also hails from Natchitoches, Louisiana (pop. 18,323), registered TauMarks domain name with GoDaddy.

This circumstantial evidence led to proof that the League of Denial doctors hyping TauMark own TauMark. Though Louisianas Secretary of States office lists no such TauMark business associated with West or Bailes, a venture called CTEM incorporated earlier this year as a limited-liability company in West Virginia. All of the figures associated with TauMark in press accountsDrs. Jorge Barrio, Julian Bailes, Gary Small, and Bennet Omalu, and attorneys Bob Fitzsimmons, the lawyer who sued the NFL on the late Mike Websters behalf, and Billy Westare listed as partners in CTEM, incorporated on March 27, 2013. Bizapedia also names famed agent Bus Cook, whose client list has boasted everyone from Brett Favre to Calvin Johnson to the late Steve McNair, as a partner.

Though press accounts did not indicate the real name of the company marketing TauMark brain scans, Justia.com notes that CTEM filed for a trademark of the phrase Taumark Better Brain Diagnostics in August. TauMark is just the public name for a private company called CTEM.

How could so many so thoroughly botch the fraudulent story that Tony Dorsett tested positive for CTE?

The widespread reporting of a fiction as a fact raises issues of the conflict of interest inherent in vested parties determining the validity of their own research, journalists acting as unwitting press agents for entrepreneurs, the prefix Dr. transforming reporterss natural skepticism into naivety, and the ethics of releasing purported scientific discoveries to ESPNs Outside the Lines for vetting rather than peer-reviewed publications better equipped for the task.

 

[cobalt_27]

And now the FDA has told TauMark to take a time out for a bit.

According to Alan Zarembo of the Los Angeles Times, the Food and Drug Administration has forced UCLA researchers Gary Small and Jorge Barrio to stop claiming that their experimental brain scan can test for brain conditions like Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-brain-scan-warning-taumark-20150410-story.html

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/EnforcementActivitiesbyFDA/WarningLettersandNoticeofViolationLetterstoPharmaceuticalCompanies/UCM436520.pdf

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/04/11/fda-clamps-down-on-taumarks-claims/