"When the N.F.L. agreed in 2012 to donate tens of millions of dollars to concussion research overseen by the National Institutes of Health,
it was widely seen as a positive turning point in football’s long
history of playing down the long-term effects of brain injuries on
players. At the time, the league said that it would have no influence
over how the money was used.
But
the league and its head, neck and spine committee worked to improperly
influence the government research, trying to steer the study toward a
doctor with ties to the league, according to a study conducted by a
congressional committee and released on Monday."
Watch Will Smith in the movie Concussion then read the story on the New York Times
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