Self-contained Chris Benoit and GWE Talk

[kjh]

Re: the brain test, his brain had already started decomposing when they did the test because of the heat, which made me question the results of the test.

 

I think it's clear that the autopsy was conducted far from perfectly, but I think it's still an open and shut case of CTE. The slides shown in the paper clearly show abnormal buildup of tau proteins that were seen in other autopsies of people suffering from CTE at the time of their deaths.

[Loss]

I do agree on that point, if only because circumstantial evidence about his hard style doesn't make it seem farfetched. But I question the Alzheimer's point for that same reason -- circumstantial evidence about how he made it to buildings and remembered match plans make it seem farfetched.

[kjh]

I always took that to be an (unhelpful) analogy at a stage when the science wasn't very well understood.

[Jimmy Redman]

Yeah I think the idea was more that his brain had deteriorated as much as an Alzheimers patient, but not necessarily in the same way.