Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 19, 2005
They're All Around Us

Via Instapundit, Ron Bailey reports on a talk by Anjan Chatterjee on neuro performance enhancing drugs. I found this interesting:

The executive's son seems to be handling the divorce all right and has thrown himself into high school sports. He is a talented middle distance runner who can compete at the county level, but isn't quite good enough to compete at the state level. However, the executive's physician can offer his son Viagra, which not only corrects erectile dysfunction (presumably not a problem in an adolescent male) but also is known to boost the lungs' capacity to absorb oxygen, which might augment his running performance just enough for him to get a college athletic scholarship.

And I thought Rafael Palmeiro was taking it for the sex.

The article points out that about 1/2 the people polled think that same performance enhancers are okay to take, the other half consider them cheating.

What sets the stage for social and political conflict over enhancement technologies is that people on both sides in the poll were completely convinced that their view would be shared by everybody.

We're seeing the same thing in the debate about steroids. The comments I've gotten on steroid use show that many people are not willing to debate the subject. What is clear is that this debate is moving out of muscle and into the mind.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:30 AM | Cheating | TrackBack (0)
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