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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/s...study-overstates-effects-of-cte.html?hpw&_r=0
When a government agency prepared a workplace safety fact sheet based on a study of degenerative brain disease in retired N.F.L. players, the organization invited several people to comment on a draft.
According to a memorandum obtained by The New York Times, most of the reviewers suggested simplifying the fact sheet so that players without a scientific background could better understand the findings. But one response stood out: a doctor on the N.F.L.’s head, neck and spine committee asked that a mention of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., be removed.
The doctor, who was not named in the internal memo, said references to C.T.E. should be removed because it was “not fully understood” and because it was not listed on the death certificates of the retired players in the study and thus lacked “epidemiological validity.” He suggested that traumatic brain injury, or T.B.I., be used instead because it “may accomplish what you want to say in more established medical terms.”
Researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which wrote the fact sheet, rejected the league doctor’s proposed change. Independent medical experts said such a request was inappropriate and not in line with prevailing research.
When a government agency prepared a workplace safety fact sheet based on a study of degenerative brain disease in retired N.F.L. players, the organization invited several people to comment on a draft.
According to a memorandum obtained by The New York Times, most of the reviewers suggested simplifying the fact sheet so that players without a scientific background could better understand the findings. But one response stood out: a doctor on the N.F.L.’s head, neck and spine committee asked that a mention of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., be removed.
The doctor, who was not named in the internal memo, said references to C.T.E. should be removed because it was “not fully understood” and because it was not listed on the death certificates of the retired players in the study and thus lacked “epidemiological validity.” He suggested that traumatic brain injury, or T.B.I., be used instead because it “may accomplish what you want to say in more established medical terms.”
Researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which wrote the fact sheet, rejected the league doctor’s proposed change. Independent medical experts said such a request was inappropriate and not in line with prevailing research.
