Matt Welch of the Reason blog tells us about a new steroids in baseball website that critically examines assumptions, particularly those in the Mitchell Report, about steroids and performance-enhancing drugs as they related to Major League Baseball. Eric Walker’s stated goal behind the website:
The purpose of these pages is to methodically dissect those claims and assumptions and compare each with what is actually known about it.
He analyzes several steroid assertions and supports each analysis with several scholarly and scientific citations. Some of his conclusions:
- Steroids and Home Runs: “No evidence” that steroids have affected home-run hitting.
- Steroid Side Effects: The side effects of anabolic steroids have been “grossly exaggerated.”
- Kids and Role Models: Adolescents who self-identify with a role model are no more likely to use drugs than those without a role model.
- Kids and Sports Heroes: Teenagers, overwhelming male, who self-identify with a sports role model are slightly less likely to use drugs.
Source: Reason blog; Eric Walker’s Steroid website
About the author
Millard writes about anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs and their use and impact in sport and society. He discusses the medical and non-medical uses of anabolic-androgenic steroids while advocating a harm reduction approach to steroid education.
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