Re:N.F.L. Tried to Influence New Concussion Research, Congre...
by dluan on Monday May 23, 2016 @08:45PM
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Maybe when the stakes go up, it's harder to call something out as bullshit. One $10M study saying the NFL is safe for mental health will outweigh 100 $10k studies too scared to state the opposite.
tbh, the NFL was smart to lump so much money as a promise to the NIH, pitting all of the institutes against one lab at BU.
They should have known it was bullshit (in Frankfurt's technical sense [0]), though.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit: "As such, bullshit can be neither true nor false; hence, the bullshitter is someone whose principal aim—when uttering or publishing bullshit—is to impress the listener and the reader with words that communicate an impression that something is being or has been done, words that are neither true nor false, and so obscure the facts of the matter being discussed"