The story of concussions in sport isn’t new. The 1929 Carnegie Report warned of dangerous play. By 1933, the NCAA’s Handbook mentioned brain injury. The risks were known—and largely ignored. Geathers v. NCAA history has a long memory. £18m payout 🧠🏉 thetandd.com/news/local/cri…

World Rugby Department for Culture, Media and Sport you’re probably only 15 years behind from implementing what I suggested in 2016…….mindsets will only change with significant financial or legal consequences. If sport really cared we wouldn’t be where we are today 😢🧠🏉😡

World Rugby Ross Tucker what is rugby’s position on risk assessments for concussion? Interested to understand how this sits in your duty of care. Do you have any examples to share? From club level and international? When were they introduced? How often are they undertaken🧠🏉

Far fewer academics are on Twitter now, but does anyone know of any academics attending NASSS conference in Vancouver next week who are affiliated with Brock University? I’m hoping someone will be able to bring a package to Vancouver for me? I’ll pay in UK candy of choice/beer

NCAA must pay $18m over alleged failure to warn player about concussion risks. NCAA knew about concussion risks since the 1930s 😔😡😢 ⁦World Rugby⁩ ⁦Welsh Rugby Union 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⁩ ⁦England Rugby⁩ theguardian.com/sport/2025/oct…

More gimmicks to obscure the hard truth that the billion dollar American football industry destroys men’s brains for fun and entertainment. #CTE #concussion #tickingtaubomb

Dr Victoria Silverwood Out now ⚔️ Stick-swinging incidents 💢 Cross-checks & near misses ⚖️ The criminal side of it all — and what it means for the future of the game 🕵️‍♀️ How bans were handled the SIH & EIH 🚑 The rise of cheapshots 👊The news for fighting 🔗 youtu.be/97k38hl5XpI

Rest is the only scientifically proven recovery from concussion, which is why Progressive Rugby advocates for a minimum 21 day rest period post a brain injury at all levels of rugby union, not just at amateur level.

Alarming Study Finds Risk of Brain Disease Rises Every Year You Play Rugby 😔😡😢🙏❤️🏉🧠 ⁦World Rugby⁩ sciencealert.com/alarming-study…

“CTE is a preventable disease; there is an urgent need to reduce not only the number of head impacts, but the strength of those impacts, in rugby as well as the other contact sports, in order to protect and prevent CTE in these players," Ann McKee, study author & Neuropathologist

Remember everyone “player welfare is our number one priority” 🤔🤔🤔😡😢😔🙏❤️🏉🧠

Alix Popham “Head Knocks” 🤬🤯 let’s call it for what it is… ‘as he recovers from three potentially fatal traumatic brain injuries (which all sensible scientific opinion suggests may impact his brain health for the rest of his life)’ must do better Telegraph Sport

I’m presenting my ongoing critical research on brain injury in contact sport in Vancouver this afternoon at #NASSS2025. I detail the script that ‘Big Sport’ uses to avoid accountability for the concussion scandal.

That’s a wrap to #NASSS in Vancouver. What a great conference. It was so energising to meet many Canadian research collaborators in person instead of through zoom. New critical friends and change makers. Looking forward to even more collaboration. Nathan Kalman-Lamb Daniel Sailofsky &more

Concussion in Sport Group (CISG) the CTE deniers…..3 years ago - out of 7,500 recent research papers on concussion CISG scientists considered 26…….and still deny the causal relationship. These shills still guide and shape existing protocols 🧠😡🏉😢 nytimes.com/2022/11/08/spo…

Neither the NRL or @RFL has ever acknowledged -- nevermind addressed -- that the HIA procedure is built on the foundations of work by Paul McCrory, a concussion "specialist" who turned out not to have done original research on concussion & to have plagiarised the work of others

From the early 2000s, McCrory was telling sports governing bodies what they wanted to hear regarding concussion, as I discuss here: medium.com/@tomjwhite9/th…

Rugby league can claim that player welfare is its main priority or it can continue to rely on the processes and underlying ideas put forward by McCrory, but it can't do both

Alix Popham World Rugby Melanie Bramwell-Popham Progressive Rugby Head for Change Dr Willie Stewart Alex Bywater David Walsh Dan Wootton Chris Nowinski, Ph.D. Dr Ed Daly Dr Victoria Silverwood James Drake Dr Lisa Ryan Dr Marshall Garrett Karen Hind annmckee The disgraced and influential Paul McCory helped to poison the concussion narrative. Financed by sport, head of CISG, former editor of BJSM. Plagiarism and more...to privilege sport over its medical position. 20 yrs of denial 😡😢🧠🏉 stevehaake.com/news/paul-mccr…

Alix Popham World Rugby Melanie Bramwell-Popham Progressive Rugby Head for Change Dr Willie Stewart Alex Bywater David Walsh Dan Wootton Chris Nowinski, Ph.D. Dr Ed Daly Dr Victoria Silverwood James Drake Dr Lisa Ryan Dr Marshall Garrett Karen Hind annmckee The lengths big sport go to x3 articles they don’t want independents theguardian.com/sport/2022/apr…