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It appears that Tour de France investigators are
committing all the mistakes that I was told in graduate school to avoid in
experimental design.
First re Landis they are not using a double-blind
method procedure in evaluating the testosterone samples.The possibility of bias
is there.Gee,asking the French to test an American champion is like I asking
Christoher Green to evaluate a work in Afrocentric psychology.
The French seem to have a penchant to question
American victories in these events.
The other question is why in previous testings of
Landis no
induced testosterone was found and all of a sudden
synthetic levels were found after the big win.Now I occasionally take vitamin
supplements and I am constantly
reminded that there is no difference between
natural and
synthetic supplements.I am not certain as to how
they can distinguish between natural and synthetic testosterone.
But there is also a lesson that can be learned re
French bias and that comes from some questionable ethological findings
-that is , if scientists are looking for something they may find it.Such
was said of British ethologist Jane Goodall
looking for specific behaviors in
chimpanzees.
Btw,if all the Tour de France participants were
given the same amount of an induced drug,wouldn't this make all the competitors
equal?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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