Doping Policies Need Review-By Harsha Sankar-August 2008
Dear Citizen, August 2008
In competitive sports, there has been a shift from one extreme to another. It is so extensive
now that athletes are being subject to multiple tests and harassment. They are too comprehensive, picking up anything from cough medicine, herbal remedies, cortisone, supplements, to ADHD medicine.
The worst part are these tests are interpreted subjectively. These tests have never been calibrated for false positive ratio. Moreover, no baselines in body chemistry have been established. For example, a positive in synthetic testosterone in men could be just a boost in natural testosterone.
Therefore, it is possible that innocent people, such as perhaps Justin Gatlin and Floyd Landis, will be falsely punished and labeled. It is also likely that a positive may be accidentally acquired.
Do not athletes have the right to repair their bodies and relieve themselves of pain just like everyone else? Obviously in the case of Ben Johnson, whose yellowish eyes and bulging veins were a dead giveaway or Chinese women and Soviet bloc women, whose masculinity were blatant, behooves the need for testing. However, testing should be limited to basic anabolic steroids in men and testosterone in women.
On the flipside, testing may not be necessary at all. After all, is it not the intent of all medication to "enhance performance" , whether one is a professional athlete, a doctor, or a short-order cook? Here is a rule to understand- If any potent drug is taken when there really is no need, only harm will result. There has been a lot of people brainwashed into thinking excessive drugging can help create super athletes. That simply is not the case. The body is the ultimate healer of itself. Drugs and surgery can only facilitate.
The athlete still has to execute in practice and in competition. The 100 meter dash, for example, may look simple to a "layman". However, it is highly intricate and technical. Excessive unnatural therapies will only impede communications between the brain and central nervous system to the necessary body parts. Athletes like Ben Johnson took steroids because he perceived a psychological edge. That edge was merely dependency and fallacy because there was no permanent physiological improvement. Ben Johnson would have run the same times without
this steroid.
Unless therapeutic, protracted drug use usually hinders rather than enhances performances by causing iatrogenic difficulties. Paranoia is a bureaucrats’ dream but an athletes’ and fans nightmare.
The preceding is an obvious example of international organizations, usually in collaboration with BAR legal systems, wielding unbridled power. In the name of making something perfect, they will in turn ruin it. These concerns about "doping" are just false pretenses for them to arrogate themselves power, terrorizing and harassing people in the process.
The preceding is also how science can be contaminated and distorted by bad politics. Too many medical community members are just simply not thinking with common sense.
Very Truly Yours,
Harsha Sankar
908 Valley Ridge
Covington, Virginia 24426
In competitive sports, there has been a shift from one extreme to another. It is so extensive
now that athletes are being subject to multiple tests and harassment. They are too comprehensive, picking up anything from cough medicine, herbal remedies, cortisone, supplements, to ADHD medicine.
The worst part are these tests are interpreted subjectively. These tests have never been calibrated for false positive ratio. Moreover, no baselines in body chemistry have been established. For example, a positive in synthetic testosterone in men could be just a boost in natural testosterone.
Therefore, it is possible that innocent people, such as perhaps Justin Gatlin and Floyd Landis, will be falsely punished and labeled. It is also likely that a positive may be accidentally acquired.
Do not athletes have the right to repair their bodies and relieve themselves of pain just like everyone else? Obviously in the case of Ben Johnson, whose yellowish eyes and bulging veins were a dead giveaway or Chinese women and Soviet bloc women, whose masculinity were blatant, behooves the need for testing. However, testing should be limited to basic anabolic steroids in men and testosterone in women.
On the flipside, testing may not be necessary at all. After all, is it not the intent of all medication to "enhance performance" , whether one is a professional athlete, a doctor, or a short-order cook? Here is a rule to understand- If any potent drug is taken when there really is no need, only harm will result. There has been a lot of people brainwashed into thinking excessive drugging can help create super athletes. That simply is not the case. The body is the ultimate healer of itself. Drugs and surgery can only facilitate.
The athlete still has to execute in practice and in competition. The 100 meter dash, for example, may look simple to a "layman". However, it is highly intricate and technical. Excessive unnatural therapies will only impede communications between the brain and central nervous system to the necessary body parts. Athletes like Ben Johnson took steroids because he perceived a psychological edge. That edge was merely dependency and fallacy because there was no permanent physiological improvement. Ben Johnson would have run the same times without
this steroid.
Unless therapeutic, protracted drug use usually hinders rather than enhances performances by causing iatrogenic difficulties. Paranoia is a bureaucrats’ dream but an athletes’ and fans nightmare.
The preceding is an obvious example of international organizations, usually in collaboration with BAR legal systems, wielding unbridled power. In the name of making something perfect, they will in turn ruin it. These concerns about "doping" are just false pretenses for them to arrogate themselves power, terrorizing and harassing people in the process.
The preceding is also how science can be contaminated and distorted by bad politics. Too many medical community members are just simply not thinking with common sense.
Very Truly Yours,
Harsha Sankar
908 Valley Ridge
Covington, Virginia 24426
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