Current anti-doping crisis: The limits of medical evidence employing inductive statistical inference
The anti-doping system is supposed to level the playing field and protect clean athletes. Doping scandals of the past two decades have seriously questioned the effectiveness of the worldwide anti-doping program, and criminal investigations associated with those scandals have created evidence for its partial ineffectiveness. However, legal action often succeeded because of activities from within the anti-doping community, such that the looming ineffectiveness could still be interpreted as a sign of an isolated shortcoming of the drug-testing program, while the overall "system of anti-doping" was still effective and working. In other words, from within the anti-doping system, we may not be able to assess its own effectiveness.
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| Notations: | biological and medical sciences sport history and sport politics |
| Tagging: | Anti-Doping |
| Published in: | Sports Medicine |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-019-01074-0 |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 497-500 |
| Document types: | article |
| Level: | advanced |