NYT's article on traumatic encephalopathy in football players is astonishing. Astonishingly awful, I mean. I guess that's not astonishing, it's NYT. Shameless selection bias, and no control group!pic.twitter.com/jDOGJ8D8xa
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Typical of much of advocacy literature unfortunately. Except if this is a hard news story and not an editorial, it's not really supposed to be advocacy. This is one of the multitude of ways the media can be subtly (and sometimes not subtly) dishonest.
Yeah, it's not subtle. "110 positives remain significant scientific evidence..." -- no they don't! This is just a freakshow.
Most of these guys didn't make it to 65 though.
"median age at death, 66 years" so more than half did. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2645104?redirect=true …
Stand corrected.
My understanding is that, despite the NYT's total botching of the statistics, there *does* exist very good evidence for the football -> CTE link. I've had very strong football fans (who are also statistically literate) tell me they think the sport is dead in ten years.
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