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Cake day: October 21st, 2023

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  • Anti-steroid propaganda was probably the only effective messaging from the war on drugs, but like all drugs, it’s relative, and not that simple.

    Not to go on too long of a tangent here, but the complete restriction of these classes of drugs actually can cause a lot of unnecessary harm to athletes. For example, in helping athletes heal and recover from injuries, or surgeries.

    Recovery time is really important in pro-sports where the ability to earn money is limited to a relatively short window e.g. professional fighting. Often time fighters will return before they’re fully healed, because they need to earn a living. In many of those cases, steroids could have significantly shortened their recovery time and reduced the risk of further injury.

    I’m not here pretending that steroid use can’t also cause undo harm to athletes, just that it’s not as black and white as many people believe.

    Edit: to be clear, steroids are some of the most complicated drugs to use correctly in order minimize long-term health effects, such as destroying your endocrine system. Professional or amateur, they should only be used under the close supervision of a specialized doctor.





  • That is a genuinely heart wrenching read. I look forward to more reporting, but this is type of story where digging too deep may result in a hit and run “accident”, or straight up car bombing.

    They don’t go into too many details, but it sounds like hospital staff were paid to abduct the infants and tell parents their newborns died.

    Given how widespread it was, I assume it was a system of brokers who paid off the staff, took the infants, and then acted as go-betweens for the agencies selling the babies for adoption.

    That’s entirely speculation on my part. I hope they can dig deeper into this and bring some level accountability for the sake of those families.