Isn’t it time for the brainwashed public to know the truth about steroids? In their ideological zeal to ban “performance enhancing” drugs, national governments and the various local and international sports federations have ignorantly and self-righteously declared that steroid use is cheating, dangerous, and stupid. In fact, in general, it is neither dangerous nor stupid […]
A Philosophical Defense of Anabolic Steroid Use – More Steroids, Please!
I – PREFACE This essay is frankly and entirely one-sided. I have no interest in remarks like “On the one hand this may be true but on the other hand that may be true and then again, who knows, maybe everybody is right.” I don’t like this wishy-washy approach. Better to be flat out wrong […]
Just Say “Yes” to Steroids
I admit to being uncompromising about some things. My enemies use the unflattering term “extremist” to describe me. I may be a million miles off the mark but I am positive of one thing: that only by giving every viewpoint a fair hearing in the open marketplace of ideas can we ever arrive at the […]
Let’s Ban Those Who Don’t Use Steroids
At the conclusion of the twenty-seventh Olympiad still another set of athletes was found guilty of using steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs and were sent home in disgrace. Yet the facts concerning steroids are badly misunderstood. So much that is usually said on the subject is utterly banal and repeated so often that any fourteen-year-old […]