Julia Marnin  21 hrs agoLike|93 Former NFL players who suffer from dementia or other brain injuries may be entitled to payouts under the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims but the league uses a scoring algorithm that requires former Black players to score lower for cognitive skills than their white counterparts to receive an award which has been called “race-norming.”© Patrick Smith/Getty Images Ronald Jones #27 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers reacts late in the game against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium on February 07, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. Under an NFL settlement, the league asserts that Black men have lower cognitive skills than white men which makes it hard for former Black players to attain NFL awards as part of a $1 billion settlement for brain injuries. The settlement is overseen by senior U.S. District...

“Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, and not an institution.” arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07993…“Indeed, anti-maskers often reveal themselves to be more sophisticated in their understanding of how scientific knowledge is socially constructed than their ideological adversaries, who espouse naïve realism about the “objective” truth of public health data.” “In other words, anti-maskers value unmediated access to information and privilege personal research and direct reading over “expert” interpretations.” “Its members value individual initiative and ingenuity, trusting scientific analysis only insofar as they can replicate it themselves by accessing and manipulating the data firsthand.” “They are highly reflexive about the inherently biased nature of any analysis, and resent what they view...

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