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Old 07-23-2009, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Admitting that the "authorities" ie vets and chemists, are totally lost in trying to combat illegal drugs is not going to happen from a vet. It is the basic problem in solving the issue. Similarily the way the drugs that the BALCO guys were using were found out was by someone ratting them out and sending the authorities a sample. Even Dr. Caitlin admitted that they would have likely never found "the clear" or "the cream" through traditional testing methods and that guy is borderline insane. While "cheating" is not nearly as widespread as thought and most positive tests are not really relevant to performance the idea that there aren't things being done beyond the scope of the regulators is frightenly naive.
Do you seriously think that the authorities are indeed "totally lost" in combating illegal drugs? Really? Totally? RMTC and their work, and what has been changed in the past ten years, and what they are working on now?

As to your second comment, if you are referring to me saying things are not done beyond the scope of the regulators, what I said was that they indeed were. I've not seen anybody here say there's no cheating.

Thanks for verifying, "that cheating is not nearly as widespread as thought"
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