Hugh Pickens writes "John Tierney poses the query in the New York Times 'what if we let athletes do some they wanted to excel?' Before you dismiss the notion, consider what we're stuck with today — a system designed to create a level playing field, protect athletes' health and set an example for children, that fails on all counts. The journal Nature, in an review in the current issue, complains that 'antidoping advisory board have fostered a sporting culture of suspicion, secrecy and fear' by relying on unscientifically calibrated tests, like the unreliable test for synthetic testosterone that cost Floyd Landis his 2006 Tour de France victory and even if the advisory board manage to correct their tests, they can't perhaps keep up with the accelerating advances in biology." Read on for more.

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