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Gene Doping: Genetically Engineered Athletes
securitas writes "With the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics about to begin, games officials are on the lookout for the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes who want to gain an edge over their competitors. Scientific American's H. Lee Sweeney reports on sports officials who are looking to the near future with fear, anticipating a new, undetectable kind of doping that threatens to transform the fundamental nature of sports: gene doping (single-page view). The technology uses new 'therapies that give patients a synthetic gene, which can last for years, producing high amounts of naturally occurring muscle-building chemicals. The chemicals are indistinguishable from their natural counterparts and are only generated locally in the muscle tissue .... so officials will have nothing to detect in a blood or urine test.'
The article from the July 2004 issue includes diagrams by Jen Christiansen on the importance of skeletal muscles that provide athletes' power and how gene doping works.
Is the future of competitive sports an elite cadre of genetically engineered athletes?"
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This is an idiotic "problem". If people weren't so stupid as to worship and adulate other people for being able to throw a ball farther or jump higher than other people, there wouldn't be a demand for this kind of thing.
As human beings, we have evolved large brains in order to avoid lifting heavy things and running away from predators. The Olympics is a celebration of brawn over brains. People who feel they must compete in it deserve whatever they get, and people who watch and cheer them on also deserve what they ask for.
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Why don't you Americans just accept that socialism can produce better athletes than your ridiculous system can create? Why do you have to blame every loss on people "cheating" against you? When your only motivation is celebrity endorsements of "barely legal" supplements (i.e. US dollars), the fact that athletes might be motivated by the simple fact of competing for their people is a thought you probably find disturbing. Turn off Fox news, get a clue.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Your metabolic rate could be actually consider an advantage in situation when there was no food. You would theoretically live longer than others. Diversity is good.