NFL currently demanding the New York Times to retract a recent report related to concussions and NFL's poor handling of the situation.
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Originally Posted by ESPN
The NFL has demanded that the New York Times issue a retraction about a story last Thursday that said the league omitted concussion cases when it downplayed the effects of head injuries on players, according to a report.
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According to the Times, the NFL's concussion studies ended up ignoring about 10% of all concussions within a time period in order to get a better report for their side and downplay how bad the issue was.
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Originally Posted by ESPN
The research, published in 13 peer-reviewed articles beginning in October 2003, was supposed to be based on a full account of all diagnosed concussions team doctors had reported between 1996 and 2001, but the missing concussions accounted for about 10 percent of the total number of cases, according to the Times.
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Other studies and reports by the NFL also had a big percentage of concussions ignored or not documented. One report even had more concussions ignored than included for the sample pool.