Great documentary. I don't know why I didn't submit this when I saw lol

I really didn't like this doco. There is an underlying apologist narrative for steroid use that fails to acknowledge many of the implications that go along with the practice.

>> ^Kofi:

I really didn't like this doco. There is an underlying apologist narrative for steroid use that fails to acknowledge many of the implications that go along with the practice.


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I found it had a realist narrative. It gave what I'm assuming are facts about steroid use, and compared them in terms of relative danger and public perception with performance enhancing drugs in non-sport fields. On the whole I'd say the conclusion most people would draw from the movie alone is that steroids are kinda okay. That could either be because that is a logical conclusion, or that the director was biased. The fact that a certain conclusion comes out of something doesn't indicate bias. It may indicate a lack of general knowledge beforehand.

That said, one of the stats was clearly henpecked: when he gave the list of drugs that lead to emergency room visits, naturally drugs that are more commonly used are going to cause more emergency room visits. I don't think it's contentious that heroin is worse for an individual than alcohol, but alcohol is still #1 in emergency admissions because of its prevalence. So steroids down at #142 or whatever doesn't mean it's safer than Aspirin. Same with the stat comparing number of deaths. To be meaningful, those numbers have to be scaled with the prevalence of their use in the population, and it would also be nice to see them weighted by amount of use. I'm betting the 3 deaths attributed to steroids were by mega-juicers.>> ^Kofi:

I really didn't like this doco. There is an underlying apologist narrative for steroid use that fails to acknowledge many of the implications that go along with the practice.

I don't think we should be wasting money on Federal Government programs that hunt down athletes for taking steroids. You're the FBI shouldn't you be protecting us from Terrorists?!

I don't care how against steroids you are, you have to agree that it's stupid that the FBI gets involved in this shit. It's stupid that Congress calls up athletes to testify about this shit. Fuck off and do something that MATTERS!

It's *dead kirk.

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