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Halfway through the Mitchell report on steroids in basball

December 13, 2007 05:07 PM

So far the report is a bore. No science save the usual references to the harm associated with steroids and protecting "our kids" the mantra of the new social engineer/prudes/and semi-fascists who want to make us do things their way.

It is a sleazy document so far, and thus gets much press coverage for the naming of names and locker room gossip. One section actually is devoted to sports writer comments on baseball and steroids, just about the least credible group on anything. All they want to do is to be noticed and to sell their story, an admission made by the sports writer who castigated Ted Williams, one of the greatest and most ethical of baseball players.

If I find some statistics that purport to document the surge in hitting, I will take a good look at them. So far there is nothing but an allegation that hitting surged in 1996 with no specifics.

Mitchell was not my favorite senator when he was senate majority leader and he is not winning any more admiration with this, so-far, sleazy report. Some of the usual antagonists to steroids also appear in the report, as they do in the Senate hearings. The same crew of witnesses keeps recycling, making the same statements.

Steroids are not that dangerous. They don't kill people. The people who overuse them already have significant problems. Most of the effects are reverseable, though not always for women. Steroids, as the research I have discussed, are only moderately effective.

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Comments

Well, Art, I don't know if you'll agree, but I think I came up with a funny take on this that I titled:

Spinach & Jesus

http://www.honestylog.com/root/2007/12/spinach-jesus.html

Posted by: Richard Nikoley [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 13, 2007 7:54 PM

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