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So rather than Roger Goodell getting his league a water-muddying "scientific" study, it gets itself this: a massive embarrassment, a blow to whatever credibility it still has on the topic and another round of headlines that make everyone suspicious about football and brain injuries, because why try to shape a scientific study unless you fear it? The claim that there is a so-called "War on Football" is simplistic, but not without some merit. There is definitely a faction of people who relish in blasting the sport.