Kurgan Gringioni said:DepartFictif said:http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2005/nov05/nov06news
About time someone came up with this publicly!
Quoted message said:Dumbass -
We had an argument about gene doping in rbr a few years ago.
There were a couple of dumbasses (Clovis Lark and Kyle Legate) who
claimed it couldn't be done. Jesus, what a stupid position they had.
Then came out BALCO (illicit laboratory) and cover stories on both
Scientific American and Discover magazine on the possibilities and
really, the inevitability of gene doping.
Sport as we know it is going to be over soon. How to test for a genetic
alteration?
Dumbass,
Legate doesn't seem to be around to defend himself. My
recollection is that he said it wouldn't be practical soon, not
that it couldn't be done.
The article cited is basically a press release. I don't see
anything new, beyond the allegation that athletes have been
contacting gene researchers, which is probably true, doesn't
surprise me, and tells you more about the athletes' "try
anything" mentality than whether genetic therapy as doping
is practical yet.
[censored] Pound and WADA, playing the role of Cassandra, will say
anything to convince people of the Oncoming Doping Menace
Storm!!! It's good for the budget. Of course, the original
Cassandra, as a prophet, was right. But press releases from
[censored] Pound lack a certain credibility.
I also think gene therapy doping will happen, and quite possibly
by 2012, but I think it will either be the adoption of an otherwise
legitimate medical therapy (as was the case for EPO), or it will
be under cover, untested medically, and very dangerous. Even
EPO was quite dangerous when first abused, before people
knew to cut it with orange juice.
Also, there will be a large market for quacks selling "gene doping"
to athletes who wouldn't know cheetah genes from Gene Tierney,
but are looking for The [censored] That Will Kill Them. You know, if you
and I get in on a piece of the action early, we could make a killing.
If we just sold them placebos and sugar-water, we wouldn't even
kill the customers. It would be highly ethical, in that respect - we'd
protect the Masters Fatties from their own impulses.
Whaddaya think, is that a business model or what?