The HGH Mess: Garbage In Garbage Out
Posted by Jonathan in GENERAL on 03-04-10 No Comments
When it comes to performance enhancing drugs in sports, it really is about not letting the facts get in the way.
Never mind the testing procedures for everything from steroids to human growth hormone to even amphetamines is at best a hit or miss affair. Or the policies to administer and regulate these drugs in organized athletics make little sense. Or that media coverage drifts between the hysterical and the clueless. The spiraling buzz, for example, around supposed HCH doc Anthony Galea has reached the ridiculous.
But now nonsense over HGH is spilling out into the larger world.
Case in point, a fella named Edwin. Maybe it’s his picture on the left or maybe not. Anyway, a guy who signs his name as Edwin has the, tip top number one Website across all major search engines for the term “HGH.” His site, HGHFacts, outranks similar fluff sites like HGH9, HGH.com, Eternal HGH and about a dozen other dubious sources of information about human growth hormone. About the only thing close to factual information is the Wikipedia entry on the subject, which I have to say is particularly thin. And even the Mayo Clinic’s page on HGH has little real data.
Bottom line: information and HGH don’t mix.
If sports is really trying to get itself clean around HGH, how about we start with some real numbers. What does HGH really do? What are the dosage limits? What are the hard cases of abuse? And maybe even the success stories. It seems we are pretending HGH does not exist. And that only creates a vacuum for dopes like Edwin to step in and define the conversation.
No wonder Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran and Alex Rodriguez get sucked in. They’re just overpaid kids. If these are the facts we are giving them, heaven help all of us.
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