This may come as no surprise, but once again, the NFL is coming under fire for what appears to be an attempt to impede impartial efforts to further concussion research, this time through efforts to influence the manner in which funding that they supplied to the government’s National Institutes of Health would be used.
More specifically, the league objected to the fact that of their $30 expenditure in what is being described as an “unrestricted gift” to the NIH, roughly $16 million was issued as a grant to a Boston University research group, whose bid was chosen by the Institute for the proposal to study the ability to detect signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living patients.