“It’s worth conjuring up a crazy narrative, especially if it helps people to ask questions,” the professional adds. “But I’m not using a narrative, I’m just questioning multiple scientists and I’m just asking questions because I’m inquisitive.”
As he developed his own understanding of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Odrick was forced to navigate the lack of definitive answers coming from academics, neurologists and people dominating the analysis of repeated head injury. “I wanted to hear about lab reports. I wanted to hear about specific drugs that they were using, combined with other chemicals that showed a history of having success in other places,” he confesses. “None of that language was being spoken to me, it was all storytelling, and that’s what I was worried about.”
