{"id":13199,"date":"2009-11-25T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T20:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13199"},"modified":"2009-11-25T12:42:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T20:42:56","slug":"yisroel-pensack-the-national-footbal-leagues-headless-head-injury-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13199","title":{"rendered":"Yisroel Pensack:  The National Football League&#8217;s Headless Head Injury Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/25\/sports\/football\/25concussion.html?hpw\">The New York Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the latest indication that the National Football League will redirect its approach to players&rsquo; concussions, the co-chairmen of the league&rsquo;s committee on brain injuries resigned from the group Tuesday, the league announced.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ira Casson and Dr. David Viano, members of the committee since 1994 and  co-chairmen since 2007, co-authored most of the group&rsquo;s published research  papers whose conclusions regarding head injuries were met with considerable  criticism from medical peers. Casson has been the league&rsquo;s primary voice  discrediting all evidence linking football players with subsequent dementia  or cognitive decline, drawing criticism from fellow scientists, players and  ultimately Congress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The N.F.L. is currently identifying their replacements and additional  members who will bring to the committee independent sources of expertise and  experience in the field of head injuries,&rdquo; [Commissioner Roger] Goodell said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time that the league has replaced leadership of its  committee on concussions. In early 2007, the chairman, Dr. Elliot Pellman,  resigned after strong criticism of his work and indications that he had  exaggerated several aspects of his medical education and professional status in  official biographical sketches and a resum&eacute; prepared for Congress. He was  replaced by Casson and Viano&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports: In the latest indication that the National Football League will redirect its approach to players&rsquo; concussions, the co-chairmen of the league&rsquo;s committee on brain injuries resigned from the group Tuesday, the league announced.&nbsp; Dr. Ira &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,22,18818],"tags":[20068,20070,20074,20067,20066,20071,20069,20076,20077,20075,1359,20065,20064,20072],"class_list":["post-13199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-times","category-sports","category-yisroel-pensack","tag-co-chairmen","tag-cognitive-decline","tag-commissioner-roger-goodell","tag-committee-on-brain-injuries","tag-concussions","tag-congress","tag-dementia","tag-dr-david-viano","tag-dr-elliot-pellman","tag-dr-ira-casson","tag-football-players","tag-n-f-l","tag-national-footbal-league","tag-scientists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13202,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions\/13202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}