As a counterpoint : I have enjoyed quite some nightlife over the years, but I have never stumbled upon cocaine.
I am sure there is plenty.
Re:Chess’s Cheating Crisis
by selectodude on Monday October 19, 2020 @12:15PM
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That's all really great, but it's possible (even likely) that they progressed because they doped and you didn't progress because you didn't.
It's simply physiologically impossible to accomplish what these athletes are doing without assistance.
I know exactly why I "didn't progress" and they did, as you kind of put it.. I decided not to. They decided to continue. I stopped training, they didn't. When I was still active I progressed same as they did - and I saw nothing super-human in their later performance. Obviously I only have intimate knowledge about my own field, I know nothing about e.g. 100m sprinters, jumpers and the like. And, as everybody else, I'm pretty suspicious about pure muscle-based sports like weight lifting.
That's a ridiculous claim because it can't be falsified as long as you are not arguing with an unbeaten olympic champion. As long as an athlete has been beaten by somebody, you can always pull the "yeah well you know why you didn't win? Because you're clean, but everybody above you doped."
Just like arguing "well we only lost the election cause the other side cheated."
EditAdd: I did know people who were fascinated about EPO-like medication, and asthma medicine when used without actually having asthma. That was when they were quite young, and that's also a long time ago. I never ran into any of them actually using anything, and they were in the minority - I met just two, and sadly one of them died in a traffic accident before he got to a professional level.