Thursday, March 21, 2013

Should science on brain injury inspire a ban on boxing?

Should science on brain injury inspire a ban on boxing?

File photo of two eleven-year-old Cuban boys facing each other in the ring during a boxing training session at an Old Havana neighbourhood boxing gymBy Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - When Ireland's Katie Taylor was taking hits and striking blows for boxing's Olympic debut in an east London ring last year, John Hardy did not want to look. To this leading neuroscientist and molecular biologist, a boxing bout is little more than a session of mutual brain injury. He was horrified to see women boxing at Olympic level for the first time at the London 2012 Games. ...



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