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There are those who wonder if (gene) doping is OK
[SIZE=-1]USA Today - 16 hours ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Turns out there is a school of thought -- "pro-doping," it's called -- that suggests anything athletes do to improve performance is OK, even, for example, manipulating DNA or surgically enlarging the webbing between fingers and toes in order to swim faster.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]So says Andy Miah, who teaches at the University of the West of Scotland and was among about 10 panelists who participated in Thursday's conference on "The Coming Age of the Uber-Athlete: What's So Bad about Gene Enhancement and Doping?" at the American Enterprise Institute. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Miah advocates "celebrating the value of performance enhancement," he said.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I don't think a public health crisis would arise from enhancement technologies," he added.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Miah said there is a growing group of professors around the world -- "Four years ago, there were half as many people as now," he noted -- who back his "World Pro-Doping Agency" thought experiment. One of his premises is that sports wrongly are thought of as a separate entity, different from other pursuits or professions -- music, art, medicine -- where no one objects to, essentially, doing whatever one can to be the best one can be.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"We are more willing to embrace these enhancements, with the caveat that we need them to be safe enough," he said. "We don't all want to kill ourselves by using these things, but we are interested in exploring the realm of human embodiment that is beyond our current capabilities -- and that might be cognitive, it might be physical. And I think that's where sport isn't quite at yet."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2008-12-19-3646293393_x.htm&cid=0&ei=T-VMSdbbEYHI9AT5ppCLDw&usg=AFQjCNFl3iuPeANt_TAsNYcStKE1peyGLA
[SIZE=-1]USA Today - 16 hours ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Turns out there is a school of thought -- "pro-doping," it's called -- that suggests anything athletes do to improve performance is OK, even, for example, manipulating DNA or surgically enlarging the webbing between fingers and toes in order to swim faster.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]So says Andy Miah, who teaches at the University of the West of Scotland and was among about 10 panelists who participated in Thursday's conference on "The Coming Age of the Uber-Athlete: What's So Bad about Gene Enhancement and Doping?" at the American Enterprise Institute. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Miah advocates "celebrating the value of performance enhancement," he said.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"I don't think a public health crisis would arise from enhancement technologies," he added.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Miah said there is a growing group of professors around the world -- "Four years ago, there were half as many people as now," he noted -- who back his "World Pro-Doping Agency" thought experiment. One of his premises is that sports wrongly are thought of as a separate entity, different from other pursuits or professions -- music, art, medicine -- where no one objects to, essentially, doing whatever one can to be the best one can be.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"We are more willing to embrace these enhancements, with the caveat that we need them to be safe enough," he said. "We don't all want to kill ourselves by using these things, but we are interested in exploring the realm of human embodiment that is beyond our current capabilities -- and that might be cognitive, it might be physical. And I think that's where sport isn't quite at yet."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2008-12-19-3646293393_x.htm&cid=0&ei=T-VMSdbbEYHI9AT5ppCLDw&usg=AFQjCNFl3iuPeANt_TAsNYcStKE1peyGLA
