The first line of a Sports Illustrated piece detailing Bennet Omalu’s characterization of football as “child abuse” falsely labels him the “doctor credited with discovering chronic traumatic encephalopathy.” The article goes downhill from there.
The doctor portrayed in the movie “Concussion” believes that poison, not the very real concussion Hillary Clinton suffered or some other malady, may explain the presidential candidate’s health issues.
Jeanne Marie Laskas, the writer of the article that serves as the basis of ‘Concussion,’ tells Breitbart Sports that the film relies on storytelling and does not play as a documentary.
“Tell the truth,” a frustrated Will Smith repeats in ‘Concussion.’ If only the makers of the film followed that sound advice.
The scientific claims made by the company partly owned by Dr. Bennet Omalu, portrayed by Will Smith in the Christmas Day film release “Concussion,” elicited a rebuke from the Food and Drug Administration and a rebuttal in the scholarship of an unlikely source: Dr. Bennet Omalu.
A tax-exempt nonprofit established by Dr. Bennet Omalu, portrayed by Will Smith in the film Concussion, funded a study on a product subsequently licensed exclusively by Omalu’s for-profit business.
