flicker said:...
WADA has taken a step down in my eyes by Mr. Howmans' statement.
Interesting. Hadn't realized you had WADA upon a pedestal from which it could descend a step. Care to defend why you put them there?
Dave.
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flicker said:...
WADA has taken a step down in my eyes by Mr. Howmans' statement.
D-Queued said:Interesting. Hadn't realized you had WADA upon a pedestal from which it could descend a step. Care to defend why you put them there?
Dave.
"There's a million other products on sale on Amazon that are similar" to the ones we analyzed, Oliver Catlin said. "It's an easy place to shop and look for these things. They remain widely available."
D-Queued said:Fair enough. I misjudged you.
As for the real battle on drugs, and the really big profits, it appears the FDA & FBI are very busy in Florida lately. Trying to stem the massive profits from the illegal traffic in prescription drugs.
Biggest drug market next to alcohol and mary jane.
Sports stars benefit from the power of sports marketing.
When sports stars are the poster children of drug abuse, this is a big problem. Especially if that abuse is PEDs, since this suggests that illicit prescription drugs are ok.
As for which is more profitable. Today's Front Page story in USA Today underscores the massive profits available in the illicit prescription drugs market.
Meanwhile, last month we had this headline in the Washington Post:
Study finds steroids are readily available through Amazon
Dave.
flicker said:Mr. Howman is being a sensationalist, nothing more nothing less. PED abuse in sports is serious, however his statement is outlandish.
Even if there was more money changing hands or profits made in PEDs over Heroin, the human suffering and direct link to enslaving individuals, and the crimes committed by said Heroin addicts, does not compare in any way to PED abuse.
WADA has taken a step down in my eyes by Mr. Howmans' statement.
Fester said:Who are WADA, how are they elected, who elects them and what kind of committee makes the decisions regarding peds?
Who finances it and how much money is involved?
D-Queued said:...they have a web site that you can consult?
WADA was created by the IOC in the aftermath of the Festina affair.
It is a bit of an open book on your other questions... which should not come as any surprise.
You didn't know this, or you are trying to suggest something nefarious?
Dave.
D-Queued said:...they have a web site that you can consult?
WADA was created by the IOC in the aftermath of the Festina affair.
It is a bit of an open book on your other questions... which should not come as any surprise.
You didn't know this, or you are trying to suggest something nefarious?
Dave.
Fester said:My nefarious suggestion is I am worried that their industry exists because of doping. How interested would all those labs be, all those doctors, all those committees be in eliminating their reason for being?
In terms of funding they appear to receive 26m a year.
Fester said:How interested would all those labs be, all those doctors, all those committees be in eliminating their reason for being?
D-Queued said:Fair enough. I misjudged you.
As for the real battle on drugs, and the really big profits, it appears the FDA & FBI are very busy in Florida lately. Trying to stem the massive profits from the illegal traffic in prescription drugs.
Biggest drug market next to alcohol and mary jane.
Sports stars benefit from the power of sports marketing.
When sports stars are the poster children of drug abuse, this is a big problem. Especially if that abuse is PEDs, since this suggests that illicit prescription drugs are ok.
As for which is more profitable. Today's Front Page story in USA Today underscores the massive profits available in the illicit prescription drugs market.
Meanwhile, last month we had this headline in the Washington Post:
Study finds steroids are readily available through Amazon
Dave.
Race Radio said:Not just Amazon but Don Catlin's own website
http://steroidreport.com/2011/02/01/don-catlin-sells-anabolic-steroids-on-his-website/
Dewulf said:Agreed, plus i don't believe the market sizes are even remotely similar. Far more potential heroin users than PED users i would bet.
Glenn_Wilson said:Race Radio said:Not just Amazon but Don Catlin's own website
http://steroidreport.com/2011/02/01/don-catlin-sells-anabolic-steroids-on-his-website/
He was calling out Amazon for selling steroids while the entire time the ad sense adds were pimping steroids on his web site. Classic.
It was discussed in this thread last month:Hawkwood said:The following link is for a Sky news article on doping in sport http://alturl.com/ytere. It states that WADA's David Howman said `organised gangs make more money dealing in performance-enhancing drugs than trafficking heroin.'
The criminal underworld is providing prohibited substances.
Howman also told the conference there was evidence that there had been attempts to bribe doping control officers with money in brown envelopes.
He told reporters the amounts involved were "thousands of dollars".
The criminal underworld now controls a large proportion of world sport, World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman said.
Howman told a doping conference convened by the World Sports Law Report at Twickenham rugby stadium that the criminal elements who controlled illegal betting were also involved in steroid trafficking.
"My inside information has it that the underworld is now controlling a significant proportion of world sport," he said.
theswordsman said:I love that he's citing info from Interpol, and talking about "brown envelopes" with McQuaid in the room. Does some of this intel come from the Armstrong investigation?
theswordsman said:New stuff from a Howman speech today.
The criminal underworld is providing prohibited substances.
Howman also told the conference there was evidence that there had been attempts to bribe doping control officers with money in brown envelopes.
He told reporters the amounts involved were "thousands of dollars".
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/16032011/58/wada-criminals-taking-sport.html
http://tvnz.co.nz/othersports-news/criminals-control-large-part-world-sport-4067632
I love that he's citing info from Interpol, and talking about "brown envelopes" with McQuaid in the room. Does some of this intel come from the Armstrong investigation?
Dr. Maserati said:It was discussed in this thread last month:
Howman: More Money In Doping Than Heroin
(The Mods can probably merge the 2 threads if there is nothing new in todays comments.)
D-Queued said:Yes. Classic.
In fairness, Caitlin appears to have reacted to the concern and adwords are no longer on the site:
Here is the link: http://thecatlinperspective.wordpress.com
I am not here to defend Caitlin, but tweeting the three-week-old steroidreport article at the present time without checking on status at Caitlin's site is endorsing something that no longer appears to be true. Corrective tweet called for?
Seems prejudicial when corrective action has been taken, don't you think?
And, in minor bone to pick, it would have been nice if the criticizing article on sterroid report had provided an html link to the Caitlin site - rather than simply spelling out the name of the blog.
Moreover, the steroidreport could have asked Caitlin for comment (like a real news source) and/or updated the blog post or noted in the comments that the Adwords links are no longer present.
He does clearly advertise his services to help 'fix' sites such as Caitlin's, and it would have made sense to contact Don to help him fix this if it were a sincere offer:
Without contact Don, providing a correction, or noting the change, it is a bit more like sticking his tongue out at him while claiming to be a friend.
Dave.
Hawkwood said:Okay so nothing new, just Sky being a little slow running the story. Still interesting the British media even running this sort of story, must have been a slow day for football stories!
Millard Baker said:Hi Dave,
Just a note: Catlin was/is aware of my website. I posted comments on his blog article and he deleted them without a response.
I hope my blog can provide a perspective not often found in today's journalism. I never pretend to be a journalist - blogging is one thing, journalism is another thing entirely. Unfortunately, when it comes to the issue of anabolic steroids, I think real journalists are failing in their coverage.
As far as the sincerity of my offer to help, I did post clear steps in the comments section of the article intended to help websites selectively remove ads from google adsense.
Millard