The WWE’s Cover-up and silence on CTE continues through its financing of the largest study to date of CTE in NFL players. This post is the only outlet to identify this issue: On July 25, 2017 a study funded in part by the WWE reported that Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was found in 99% of deceased NFL players’ brains that were donated to scientific research. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association- one of the premier medical journals in the world and received heavy press world-wide. Not reported was the WWE’s role in funding the study and its continued failure to finance or promote any study of CTE in wrestlers.
The WWE/NFL financed study confirms that:
1) Repeated head trauma that causes CTE will equally impact wrestlers- unless the laws of physics are different in WWE and wrestling matches.
2) CTE is no longer “junk science” but has entered the realm of near certainty.
3) The WWE knows or should know that wrestlers are at risk for CTE. The study is decisive evidence of WWE’s awareness of CTE.
4) One month after the study was published the WWE refused to even discuss ways to help wrestlers, refused to finance CTE research in wrestlers, refused an NFL style program to treat wrestlers.
The publication of this groundbreaking study raises troubling questions about the integrity of scientific research and the medical and legal establishments total indifference to WWE wrestlers. Where is the call to study wrestlers brains or get help for wrestlers?
The study included the brains of deceased players of American football from an active brain donation program, CTE was diagnosed in 110 of 111 former National Football League players (99%).
In contrast all current CTE donations & studies of WWE wrestlers by Dr. Bennett Omalu are being helped by a lawyer in Hingham, Massachusetts. The WWE and Boston University failure to study CTE in this group represent the institutional indifference to wrestlers who have no power or voice.
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2645104