Independent Journalist Matt Chaney Whacks Serious Underreporting of Catastrophic Football Injuries. What Say You, Dr. Cantu?

Matt Chaney, who has been writing about the public health warps of American football for a lot longer than I have, is reporting that principal researchers Frederick Mueller and Dr. Robert Cantu are ignoring interview requests concerning their underreporting of catastrophic casualties in the sport for the University of North Carolina’s National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research, which is underwritten by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

See:

Glaring Shortfall of Catastrophic Casualties Grows in Ongoing Review

Grave Spinal Cases Might Reach Hundreds Annually in American Football

Mueller and Cantu Gathered Mere 24 Catastrophic Cases for Year 2010

http://blog.4wallspublishing.com/2012/01/04/football-researchers-mum-about-faulty-injury-data.aspx

Chaney’s conscientious work speaks for itself – as does Boston concussion expert Cantu’s failure to engage it.

Irv Muchnick

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