Matt Welch of the Reason blog tells us about a new steroids in baseball website that critically examines assumptions, particularly those in the Mitchell Report, about steroids and performance-enhancing drugs as they related to Major League Baseball. Eric Walker’s stated goal behind the website:
The purpose of these pages is to methodically dissect those claims and assumptions and compare each with what is actually known about it.
He analyzes several steroid assertions and supports each analysis with several scholarly and scientific citations. Some of his conclusions:
- Steroids and Home Runs: “No evidence” that steroids have affected home-run hitting.
- Steroid Side Effects: The side effects of anabolic steroids have been “grossly exaggerated.”
- Kids and Role Models: Adolescents who self-identify with a role model are no more likely to use drugs than those without a role model.
- Kids and Sports Heroes: Teenagers, overwhelming male, who self-identify with a sports role model are slightly less likely to use drugs.
Source: Reason blog; Eric Walker’s Steroid website
2 Responses to “Steroids in Baseball Facts and Assumptions”
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Sidney Gendin on January 26th, 2008 at 7:50 amThis article is not for the faint of heart nor for the mathematically challenged but it is GREAT!. It should be required reading for George Mitchell and other nincompoops who feel entitled to have opinions about steroids and baseball performance.
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Anabolic Steroids and Power Factor Statistics in Baseball | Steroid Report on January 27th, 2008 at 1:38 pm[...] websites are covering Eric Walker’s Steroids and Baseball website that we discussed last week, including the New York Times. Walker suggests there is “no evidence” that [...]
