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December 13, 2004
From Matt Welch's Mailbag
He's published a great e-mail that encapsulates the argument against steroid use in baseball: The dosage for steroids to be "therapeutic" for athletic training is substantially beyond the dosages used to treatment specific ailments. FDA and other drug testing has not shown that these dosage levels are safe. In fact, long term retroactive studies on athletes known to use steroids, particularly East Germans athletes from the 1970s and 80s, and Finnish weightlifters from the 1950s, show significant adverse side effects, and measurably shorter lifespans. Likely increased steroid use in the NFL in the 1950s and 60s also probably has lead to the reduced life expectancy of those athletes as well. Click here for the rest. UPDATE: Newsweek is giving the full MSM treatment on kids and steroids. Also, be sure to check out Russ Smith, James Marchman and Bill Gifford. Thanks to Sabernomics for the links.
Eric
12:09 PM
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