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Paul Tagliabue Isn't Sorry EnoughFormer NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue sat down for an interview with the Talk Of Fame Network, and he wants everyone to know that he’s really sorry about that whole actively ignoring and downplaying the effects of concussions in the NFL thing—or at least about speaking intemperately....

The NFL Finally Gets Rid Of Its Quack Medical DirectorOne of life’s enduring mysteries has been the NFL’s continued employment of Dr. Elliot Pellman, a Guadalajara-educated rheumatologist with questionable qualifications, whose greatest career achievement is a years-long campaign to conceal and downplay the effects of concussions on NFL players. This i...

The NFL's New Scientists Sound Just As Corrupt As The Old OnesThis time was supposed to be different, or so the NFL said. ...

Why Is The NFL's Most Infamous Quack Still Involved In Its Concussion Program? 

The many ways in which Dr. Elliot Pellman—a Guadalajara-educated rheumatologist with questionable qualifications—helped the NFL downplay the depth and gravity of its concussion crisis are well-documented. He chaired the influential Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee despite not having any educati...

Elliot Pellman, NFL's Concussion Quack, Also Tagliabue's Personal Doc

For years, Dr. Elliot Pellman—a rheumatologist—discredited various independent studies concerning the severity of concussions. During that time, the league and then-commissioner Paul Tagliabue took a soft position on concussions as only minor injuries. As a direct result of this approach, players w...

Fraud. Conspirator. Quack. Disgrace. Why is Elliot Pellman, the man who spent a decade dismissing the long-term effects of concussions, still an NFL medical advisor? [Sports on Earth]...