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Should I worry about grandkids’ sports?
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Should you worry about your grandkids playing football? There is no absolute scientific proof that playing football will lead to CTE. And we are unlikely to ever get such absolute proof: that would require a study of very large numbers of children, assigning them at random to either play football or not for the next 30 years.
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