What the NFL is doing to fund concussion research

SOURCE: http://www.melanie-ford.com/?p=589

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NFL’s concern in ending the ongoing crisis of brain injuries from the game

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The NFL Needs Distance From Its Brain-Injury Funding

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• Evidence compiled by ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” revealed that the NFL has favored some league-friendly scientists over others by directing where funding is awarded.
• That would mean continuing to donate money to authoritative research bodies like those associated with the National Institutes of Health,
• The NFL is ignorant and wants to seize all funding into fueling research to stopping the ongoing concussion issue. It is in their best interest to draw attention away from the injuries and focus more on raising margins and popularity.
• In other words the National Football league could give a shit about its players, as they are hiring (Sport- friendly) scientists to give the public false info that is Bogus.

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The NFL should fund research, a lot of it. But it should do so in a completely hands-off manner. That would mean continuing to donate money to authoritative research bodies like those associated with the National Institutes of Health, but allowing a competitive research program to be run without any interference. Once the scientific agenda is set, the NFL must step back and allow the research to take place. Science agencies like those within the NIH have in place strict conflict-of-interest guidelines, and these should be employed rigorously to ensure that funding decisions are made by individuals who are open and transparent.

The National Football League is working to generate a program to launch where it will hire scientists to discover already apparent research. This will try to set the bar higher for awareness and to put people and the government in a state of mind where everything seems like it is controlled.

Last year ESPN Reported that the NFL has raised more than 100 million dollars to fuel research in the CTE controversy and to minimize traumatic brain injuries, however, the NFL wants the let the research be picked up by outside scientists that way the NFL doesn’t have to dump money into it.

FUTURE RESEARCH QUESTION: What are the scientists hired by the NFL and outside scientists finding in their research?