A football helmet gives you an awful lot of protection, ... but you don't have to be a doctor or an engineer or even a football player to realize that the helmet does not block out all the measured force produced when some 300-pound player with a hand the size of a Christmas ham whacks you in the head dozens of times a game, season after season. |
Forensic scientists are not policemen. We are scientists. We deal with these matters objectively. We do not [act] on our suspicion, |
He wasn't a boxer, but that's a general term that we would use to denote changes in the brain of a degenerative nature, ... They can be from one intensely traumatic injury, or they can be from repetitive and cumulative injuries, which is what we believe happened here. |
I'm not suggesting for one moment that we stop professional football. If I said that, I better leave the country, ... I think more attention should be paid by scientists and biomechanical engineers in coming up with a better helmet. |
In a significant number of cases in which the police taser somebody, they would have used a gun if they did not have the taser, ... Do you know what the mortality rate is when a police officer shoots? Close to 100 percent. |
repeated mild traumatic injury while playing football. |
The identification process should be complete by next week. |
This is analogous to what is colloquially known as being punch drunk, ... We believe the microscopic changes in the brain are consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy or a degeneration over time that set the stage for the final result. The meningitis was not bacterial or viral or the kind you see in college dorms or army barracks. |
We can appreciate the emotional trauma these families have suffered and we want to be able to say accurately and honestly what we have, |
What if, under that hypothetical scenario, they called in a dermatologist, an obstetrician and a psychiatrist. |