While keeping her title as club doctor, Carneiro was told she would no longer attend games, training sessions or enter the team hotel. She was expected to return to work after a week but it is understood that has not happened and she has not been seen at Cobham.With the now soon to be departing Sen. Jay Rockefeller having already introduced a bill to update government-funded studies into the link between gaming and violence, and lobbying against the industry both local and national — for every set of parents trying to ban first-person shooters, there is another NRA strategy around the corner — how do gaming's top dogs steer clear of blame as they remain in the spotlight? As this comic strip and a look at the lobby's strategy reveals, it's all about the revenge of the nerds:

Defense No. 1: The Statistical Option

Despite a lack of recent, authoritative research, the government has studied the connection between video games and violence before. As ThinkProgress's Alyssa Rosenberg points out, in 1999 Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences