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Do Concussions "Tell The Truth"?


I enjoyed the movie and its "true story" foundation. However, it crossed the line of being a true story about "the truth". Based on unambiguous empirical evidence, the truth was never discussed in the movie, only its effects, and so a partial truth cannot pose as truth. If truth be told, we would have had an epic movie that challenged the core of how we perceive reality making the science vs religion debate mute. Currently under editorial review, I have written an article titled, Do Concussions "Tell The Truth"? Here is an excerpt:

"In order to have absolute truth as he postulates, there can be no bias whatsoever. In other words, speculation cannot pose as a substitute for truth. This means that since Dr. Omalu is using deductive analysis, the cause of the effects of CTE needs to be singular and thus absolute in order for his findings to be of "one truth". Herein lies the problem of using effects as a substitute for cause. The logic of effects causing effects, which I call second cause logic by placing cause second to effect, is a violation of temporal precedence yet is fundamental to the current methodologies and theories of the art of science. As the findings from my experiment have revealed there are two origin variables that cause the existence of effects in Nature. This means that without including both origin variables, second cause logic is incomplete and therefore flawed because it is based on omitted-variable bias (ignorance of cause) which leads to false-positive conclusions as illustrated in the "A Flawed Scientific Method" document." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283515988_A_Flawed_Scientific_Method_-_Mechanics_Of_The_Two_Acts_Of_Selection

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