Recently, PBS’s Frontline aired a disturbing documentary chronicling the National Football League’s history of downplaying and distorting the evidence that football-related head injuries cause long-term brain damage. The film included footage from a 2009 Congressional hearing in which lawmakers compared the NFL’s approach to the problem to Big Tobacco’s decades of sham science and lies about the link between smoking and disease. The analogy is spot on.
The NFL borrowed a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook by choosing to dump millions of dollars into experiments on animals that won’t ever help humans, but will allow dangerous activity to continue while giving the public the illusion that they’re being protected.
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