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As football historian Matt Chaney is exhaustively documenting, the case of the long known, established, and named chronic traumatic encephalopathy — even in application to football […]

by Irvin Muchnick   We reiterate our pointer to Matt Chaney’s time line of basic media coverage of football brain injuries. This material simply blows out […]

by Irvin Muchnick   U.S. Speedskating sources have told Concussion Inc. that a campaign by dissident members — who support the stories of Bridie Farrell and […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Our January 15 hearing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, in the Freedom of Information Act dispute over the 100-plus pages […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Bennet Omalu, protagonist of Will Smith’s fictional (and at times fanciful) movie vehicle, is an equity partner in TauMark, LLC, a California […]

Our story yesterdayon the background of the Bennet Omalu Foundation at the University of Pittsburgh has added this information:   West Virginia University spokesperson John Bolt […]

by Irvin Muchnick   PREVIOUSLY: “Venture Capital For CTE Detection Key to ‘Concussion’ Movie’s Bennet Omalu’s Ethics-Challenged University of Pittsburgh Foundation,” January 6, https://concussioninc.net/?p=10645   I […]

by Irvin Muchnick Nowinski, quoted in the Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/12/28/concussion-the-nfl-and-the-limits-of-empathy/:   “We’ve been doing this dance for 10 years. We know their moves before they do…. […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Bennet Omalu was invited by Congresswoman Jackie Speier of California to sit with her at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union […]