Towards A New Anti-Doping Approach, Part VII

by Rant January 12, 2009

A few things before digging in to tonight’s post. First, for those of you who own a copy of Dope: A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today, there’s a new version of the Afterword available. You can find it by clicking Dope: The Book, above. And secondly, the blog […]

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Towards A New Anti-Doping Approach, Part VI

by Rant January 4, 2009

It’s been a bit since the last installment of “TANADA”, so before I begin with the next one, a brief… Warm-Up TBV pointed out an interesting article on the Wired website (and in the current dead-trees issue, too) to me last week, about the use of biological markers for the early detection of cancer. On […]

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Intermission

by Rant December 30, 2008

As Trust But Verify is winding down, I’d like to take a short break from the current series of posts to reflect on the most definitive web site covering the Floyd Landis case. This could be considered a brief introduction to the article I submitted as part of TBV’s final wrap-up series, The Winnowing. In […]

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Towards A New Anti-Doping Approach, Part V

by Rant December 26, 2008

In the previous post, I took a brief look at what the World Anti-Doping Agency’s role should be in the fight against doping in sports. At the end, I made what some might take as a radical statement. That is, that WADA should not be the agency charged with enforcing anti-doping rules, and also that […]

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Towards A New Anti-Doping Approach, Part IV

by Rant December 21, 2008

In the previous post, we looked at the question of how to determine what drugs are performance-enhancing and what drugs aren’t, and we looked at who should be be conducting anti-doping tests. At this point, it might be useful to look at the World Anti-Doping Agency and ask the question, “What should their role be?” […]

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Towards A New Anti-Doping Approach, Part III

by Rant December 17, 2008

As a brief recap, the previous post discussed the question of what drugs should be banned. The short answer: Only those drugs (or techniques, like blood doping) that have a performance-enhancing effect for the sport in question. So, naturally, the next question would be: How do we determine which drugs actually are performance-enhancing and which […]

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