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Column: "Concussions have become the new global warming"

What is it with the extreme right-wing and their seemingly strong case of Einsteinophobia (yes, my new term for fear of science). Just yesterday, I read an article where Texas Senator Ted Cruz compared himself to Galileo and compared climate-change alarmists to "flat-Earthers," even though logic would dictate that climate-change deniers are the flat-Earthers in this scenario. Then today, I read an article written by a Fox News guest columnist, entitled, "So Long, NFL: San Francisco 49ers' Chris Borland is no hero," where Dylan Gwinn starts his "piece" by saying this: "Don't look now, but concussions have become the new global warming: a debate where 'consensus' trumps evidence, and heroes and villains are determined by their stances on an issue where the science is bogus at worst and murky at best." Gwinn finishes the article with this paragraph: "What we know for sure is that, as with the climate-change debate, the med...