![]() ![]() In a 2016 address at the University of Melbourne, McCrory called the NFL’s concussion crisis “all the carry-on and hoo-ha you get from the United States,” adding that the media frequently misrepresented the dangers of head injuries. As chair, McCrory made controversial remarks downplaying the dangers of a condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) that results from repetitive head trauma. Among its recommendations, CISG developed the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool used by groups such the National Football League (NFL), Australian Football League (AFL), and the Football Association to evaluate head injuries in athletes.ĬISG has long struggled to justify its impartiality given that it receives funding from groups such as the International Olympic Committee, FIFA, and World Rugby, according to The Guardian. McCrory has been the lead author on four of the last five statements, including the most recent iteration, published in 2017. The CISG’s members meet every four years to produce a document called the Consensus Statements on Concussion in Sport. His resignation comes after independent investigations found at least three suspected examples of plagiarism stretching back to McCrory’s time as the editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine 17 years ago.Īs reported by The Daily Mail, a Concussion in Sport Group (CISG) representative confirmed that “the board accepted the voluntary resignation of Prof Paul McCrory,” adding that “with immediate effect, Prof McCrory has also resigned from the scientific committee of the 6th International Conference on Concussion in Sport to be held in Amsterdam.” Paul McCrory, a prominent researcher whose work on concussions has shaped much of the sporting world’s current policies on diagnosing and treating head injuries, resigned March 5 from his role as chair of the Concussion in Sport Group following allegations of plagiarism. The new incidents, first shared by Nick Brown, a data analyst at Linnaeus University in Sweden, cover papers published between 20 in which McCrory is alleged to have recycled his own previous writings while also plagiarizing the works of others, including a Washington Post journalist and the author of a book on traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents. Update (September 26): Concussion expert Paul McCrory has since been accused of 10 additional cases of plagiarism, The Guardian reports. The last article was retracted after McCrory “inaccurately quoted and misrepresented the position” of another researcher as a key support for his argument. In an editorial published by the journal on October 10, high-level staffers of the BJSM and the British Medical Journal (BMJ ) say that five retractions were due to plagiarism and three were due to redundant publication. Update (October 11): The British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM ) has retracted nine articles and placed expressions of concern on an additional 38 in which McCrory, who was previously the journal’s editor-in-chief, was the sole author, according to a press release by the journal. ABOVE: Three men collide while playing soccer © ISTOCK.COM, NAKADA
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