Date Fighting and the WWE

I haven’t read all the facts on this yet, but the wrestling fan in me wants to lash out at yet another attempt to try to make me look like a dumb redneck that beats women. Here is all the information you need on the subject:

+ DuRant’s study on wrestling and violence
+ Media Life article

Here is what Vince McMahon himself had to say about the issue:

We regret that this seven year old junk science was re-issued. It was junk science then, and is junk science now. It took them seven years to get someone to actually read it and it hasn’t even been subjected to a peer review. There is nothing new in the study, and we think it is recycled garbage put forward by some obscure professor who finally got someone to read his paper and is trying to get his name in the media.

I totally agree.

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Filed Under: Hot Web Topics on August 8, 2006 at 7:40 pm

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Nick Green said on August 20, 2006 @ 12:17 pm

My understanding is that Pediatrics is a peer-reviewed journal (and has a high impact factor - generally a measure that the journal is well respected by the scientific commumity). It would seem that the quote attributed to Vince McMahon is factually in error. Of course this doesn’t mean that the correlation is causal, but it is an interesting result.

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