League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth by Mark Fainaru-Wada
English | Oct 8, 2013 | ISBN: 0770437540 | 416 Pages | EPUB | 6 MB
So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was facing a deadly new scourge: A chronic brain disease that was driving an alarming number of players – including some of the all-time greats – to madness.