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Steve Fainaru is a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post. In 2008 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He lives in Northern California.
Fotografie: Steve Fainaru, on right. Columbia University. pulitzer.org

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1962
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Fainaru-Wada, Mark (brother)

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Very thorough treatment of the concussion problem which has beset the NFL. Although the book is now 10 years old, it really details the efforts that the NFL undertook to obfuscate and obstruct. I'd love to have an updated version or a follow-up.
 
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EZLivin | 10 andere besprekingen | Feb 5, 2024 |
A very informative (and sad and scary) book that gives insight into the NFL, the academic community, and politics.
 
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devilhoo | 10 andere besprekingen | Jan 3, 2024 |
Good overview of the contractors involved in outside the wire security/escort (basically combat...) operations in Iraq. I worked as a tech contractor in the same environment (outside the wire, armed, but not doing the same kind of static or escort security, just moving around to do other work), and it is interesting to see how these people thought about their jobs.
 
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octal | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 1, 2021 |
Good book but I had to knock a star off the rating for the blatant lie that this is the “first” time this issue has been written about. It seems like every vulture in this country wants to take for this despite the proven fact that the non-academic (right there is the problem) MD in Pittsburgh discovered this horror in his careful, thorough and documented study and autopsy of the late Steeler great Mike Webster’s brain. And published his findings in a peer reviewed journal. Only to be scoffed at. Undeterred, he was worried this issue may be more prevalent than anyone knew. So he repeated his tests with similar findings on another late NFL player, published his findings in a another peer reviewed journal. He felt so concerned about this issue that the NFL was ignoring, he went public. And it ruined his life. The NFL and a former financial partner destroyed his professional credibility and he lost his job. His ex-wrestler partner was recruited by Boston U (or C) to help create a CTE center where his new MD partner conducted an autopsy for all the press, and despite the fact this poor, idealistic, naive African MD had already done this many times with research published in peer-reviewed journals, this woman - and his conniving ex-partner - was credited with “discovering” CTE and had been the leading authority in the world ever since. And since his former partner had no academic credentials, they gave him a freaking PHD so he could be called “Doctor” too. Genius. And devious. And I’ve hated all of these people - especially the NFL - for denying, taking credit and chewing up and spitting out the poor original researcher. And now these authors come along and claim this is the “first” time the story’s been told! Like I said, fascinating story. Just sickens me how all the vultures have picked away at the carcass of the original researcher naive enough to mean well and help others...… (meer)
 
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