Friday, December 14, 2007
Have you ever seen a 45 year old man throw a baseball? They don't throw pitches like Roger Clemens. At best, they can still throw crazy junk like Phil Niekro. So it should come as a surprise to no one that The Rocket was accused of taking steroids.
[here comes the part where I complain about people being stupid or blind]
So there is overwhelming evidence that steroids have pretty incredible beneficial health properties, ranging from vastly improved athletic performance to faster and more complete injury rehabilitation.
Yet, the hysterical ninnies in the media write about this stuff like it's injecting poison directly into your veins. They constantly write about how dangerous steroids are. Really? Well then I guess there should be numerous examples of people critically injured by them, right? Especially those body builders who take dosages 100x what a normal person would. Oh what is that? There are no examples of this other than a few anecdotal stories about bad things that happened to people who also happened to be taking steroids?
Are you telling me that the best example of steroids being bad for you that you can come up with is that 15 years ago Lyle Alzado blamed it on his brain tumor?
If someone were to describe to you a study on the effects of a newly invented medication that had the same benefits and side effects are most steroids, it would be hailed as a medical breakthrough.
Cheating in sports is a separate issue, but the way the medical community and media have handled steroids is really crazy. I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but it really does seem that the government spends all of its time cracking down on substances that don't have patent protection for a Pharmaceutical company.
[here comes the part where I complain about people being stupid or blind]
So there is overwhelming evidence that steroids have pretty incredible beneficial health properties, ranging from vastly improved athletic performance to faster and more complete injury rehabilitation.
Yet, the hysterical ninnies in the media write about this stuff like it's injecting poison directly into your veins. They constantly write about how dangerous steroids are. Really? Well then I guess there should be numerous examples of people critically injured by them, right? Especially those body builders who take dosages 100x what a normal person would. Oh what is that? There are no examples of this other than a few anecdotal stories about bad things that happened to people who also happened to be taking steroids?
Are you telling me that the best example of steroids being bad for you that you can come up with is that 15 years ago Lyle Alzado blamed it on his brain tumor?
If someone were to describe to you a study on the effects of a newly invented medication that had the same benefits and side effects are most steroids, it would be hailed as a medical breakthrough.
Cheating in sports is a separate issue, but the way the medical community and media have handled steroids is really crazy. I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but it really does seem that the government spends all of its time cracking down on substances that don't have patent protection for a Pharmaceutical company.
