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Deadspin, which publishes plenty of sophomoric dreck, has a good one today by Barry Petchesky on the curiously unhelpful drumbeat of chronic traumatic encephelopathy press releases […]

With a long holiday weekend looming, I’m going to give the various investigative seeds planted on this blog some time to breathe and grow. Today I’d […]

Yesterday I sent this query to the “Sports Fans Coalition” (executive director Brian Frederick) and “League of Fans” (a Ralph Nader group): I have been reporting […]

[originally published October 5 at http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Congress_of_Neurological_Surgeons_KO_s_Own_Credibility_With_Standing_Ovation_for_NFL_Commissioner_Goodell_9576.html]   by Irvin Muchnick As I reported on my blog, the National Football League bragged that commissioner Roger Goodell got […]

The new entry in our series is prompted by Friday’s Manchester Journal Inquirer story “WWE downplaying McMahon’s ownership?” (Most Journal Inquirer content is behind a pay […]

For most of 2011, I’ve been pointing out that the celebrity dead athlete press release mode of the Boston University concussion group headed by Chris Nowinski […]

I have received zero responses to my message of a week ago, which was sent out individually to the people listed below. Would you let someone […]

On August 2, I reported that Alan Schwarz, the Pulitzer-nominated concussion reporter for The New York Times, had been moved, without announcement, to the new title […]

I keep hammering that the ImPACT “concussion management software” – developed by National Football League neurosurgeon-apologist Joseph Maroon and his conflicted, money-above-health team at the University […]