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Nov. 9, 2022
NCAA lawyers tangle with doctor who identified CTE
"It was strongly, strongly pushed back by the sports industry," Dr. Bennet Omalu, the first person to find CTE in a deceased football player's brain, declared. While he spoke, Shrader & Associates LLP founding partner Justin T. Shrader displayed to the jurors the paper Omalu wrote while attending graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh in 2005. "I confirmed that the whole industry knew about brain damage," Omalu said.
Hippocrates discovered concussions 400 years before the birth of Christ, testified a prominent head trauma researcher during a wrongful death trial against the NCAA on Tuesday.
But when Dr. Bennet Omalu published his findings on the link between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), he told a Los Angeles jury, the sports industry did everything it could to delegitimize his work.
“It was strongly,...
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