This passage makes the entire exercise of reporting these “findings” meaningless. Editors and journalists who based on this review report that HGH isn’t a performance enhancer, are derelict in their duties. Without taking into consideration the specifics involved with how athletes use HGH, steroids and any other performance-enhancing drug (PED), this story has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
This study is a meaningful as a study that looks at the efficacy of a pain-reliever based on dosages and frequency of dosages that are a fraction of the dosages necessary to elicit a positive response.
The line from the above passage, “Experiments like that aren’t likely to be conducted,” should have served as a jumping off point for a responsible journalist to discuss the fact that people who misuse PEDs do so without regard for the ethical constraints that bound legitimate people of science. There isn’t a human performance lab anywhere in the world – legitimate world – where researchers could dose athletes with HGH, testosterone and insulin to see how they respond to training and competition, and then measure these results against clean athletes. This just isn’t going to happen, ever.
People need to understand that the legitimate scientific community is always going to be behind those folks who operated outside of the boundaries of ethics and laws. And by people I mean members of the press as well as the general public.
It’s become axiomatic over the past 5+ years that too many members of the MSM are incapable of handling this story. This incident serves to point out just how little these people have learned about this subject. That so many outlets should take this approach to the story is disturbing, but not surprising, and illustrates why people need information sources that are outside the mainstream, like Blogcritics and Steroid Nation.
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