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Dope-ocracy: an Olympian Pill Panic
This programme provides alternative view points for the debate around performance enhancing drugs in sport. Stating that the anti-doping crusade is both illogical and immoral, Professor Sam Shuster, a clinical scientist, argues that athletes lives and careers are needlessly destroyed and anti-doping rules have no evidence-base. Professor Shuster also argues that banned drugs such as EPO simply have the same effect as high altitude training, and questions why one method of increasing the number of red blood cells is accepted whilst the other is not.
This video was produced for WORLDbytes, with support from the Wellcome Trust.
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