08.06.2008 7:26 pm
Scientific study questions anti-doping tests
Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
And people wonder how I can suggest that perhaps dethroned 2006 Tour de Franc champ Floyd Landis got Richard Kimbled.
This article popped in from Velonews.com, and it quotes a report from the respected British science journal Nature, questioning the efficacy of anti-doping tests such as the ones conducted on Landis sample in the 2006 Tour de France.
Donald Berry, described as an expert in biostatistics at the University of Texas in the velonews account from Agence France Presse, was quoted as calling the results from the Landis testing “non-informative,” and as saying there are “inherent flaws” in all anti-doping testing.
The article is available, for a fee, on the Nature website.
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Landis was a political pawn and undoubtedly screwed. What is almost never reported accurately is the fact that if the lab results, if not disputed , show that Landis’s testosterone level was not higher than normal. His epitestosterone was unusually low, thereby skewing the test/epitest ratio that was used as the standard. There’s only two possibilities for this anomaly. A faulty test , or some kind of disease. So now what?