The deepening spiral of innuendo

So maybe I should have said, at some previous point, what my qualifications are to rant on doping. I am a scientist with a doctorate, but not in any field remotely related to doping. I do like me the bicycling though. So essentially I have no direct qualifications except for the now hardwired ability to read vast amounts of information, process it and distill it into some condensed form. For me, the nice part about doping in cycling (and in baseball) is that it is so poorly covered in the press, there is tons of room for semicoherent pseudojournalism to fill in the gaps. I feel like I can help My "articles" are not so much journalism as op-eds with lots of background references.

Am I biased? Hell yeah!

Here are some of them:
I do not believe tyler
I do believe that retired riders should get a pass.
I am glad armstrong retired when he did.
I am sceptical but hopeful that landis is not guilty.
I can't wait to see Danielson or Leipheimer or Tyler win the tour next year.
I think the vast majority of the peleton is involved in doping practices.
And has been for the last century.
I think Dick Pound should be fired for massive ethics violations.
I think doping labs should be punished for leaking results to the press.
I think, just for kicks, doping should be criminalized in the US so we all can see how pervasive it is in baseball, football, basketball and hockey and then we can focus on intellegent testing policy instead of witch hunts.
I wish I noticed that Floyd was on leno last night so I could have watched that.

I do have a reasonably open mind though and can be convinced of many things with evidence.

Anyhow, I still am piecing together some links on ethics in testing for a post on that, but in the meantime, you may enjoy the following pages:

Free Floyd Landis someone who is blogging Floyd full time, good science background.
Trust but Verify another one on Floydgate
Dick Pound Profile in the NYT, goes easy on him I think, should have mentioned his complete lack of professionalism during Hamiltons case.
Paul Kimmage weighs in as a rightfully skeptical cycling journalist.
alien boy sporting a free floyd shirt.




More Doping musings:

Manzano Speaks

Blah blah blah floyd landis... On the initial stages of the Floydtosterone scandal.

Tour predictions, immediately pre 2006 tour

best tour ever

Liberty Seguros Quits cycling

dopingpalooza on the beginning of the Saiz/Seguros scandal

Tyler, Doping and baseball

On the IGF-1

Tyler riding in a race

Huge post on Tyler getting suspended with lots of doping links

Early post on the dealy