Analytical Summary Paper: The Doping Dilemma In “The Doping Dilemma”‚ Michael Shermer writes about the consequences and the ethics behind performance enhancing substances in professional sports. He begins with an anecdote‚ which describes the feeling of getting “dropped by your competitors on a climb” (420:2). As described by the author in the development of the story‚ every athlete has a genetic limitation that regular training cannot exceed (421:4). According to Shermer‚ the only thing to be done
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Blood Doping Although “doping” is the illegal use of drugs by athletes to enhance performance as well as training or participating in a sporting event‚ most athletes are also relatively unlikely to ever undergo testing. The first drug to be used was heroin and morphine. Heron was mainly found in horse racing circles‚ while morphine was the thing to do which was so-called endurance in sports. Using drugs to cheat in sports is not new but is becoming more effective. Even if performance-enhancing drugs
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how their foods are grown. My curiosity pertaining to food got the better of me and I was overwhelmed by a desire to discover the entire process of growing food and its journey from the farm to my dinner table. When I found The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan‚ its description captivated my interest and I immediately picked it up and read the first page. I realized then that this book
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Michael Pollan in 2006‚ published a work that has to some degree changed the way that people eat‚ or at the very least attempted to change the way that we think about the food we eat. (Shea 54) Pollan demonstrates through fundamentally modern rhetoric the relationship that people‚ and more specifically American’s have with food and how very distant we are from it. ("History‚ Old Favorites in" B08) To some degree Pollan‚ others like him and internationally challenging food shortages and even worse
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In Michael Shermer’s “Why We Are So Intrigued by Zombies” the author brings attention to the fascination of mythical creatures‚ more specifically Zombies. Throughout the text the author gives valid reasons for these curbs of interest. He mostly states that it has to do with our evolutionary biology and the fact that we crave fear stimulus in a controlled environment. In the human races ancient past our ancestors were always fraught dangerous uncurtains of some sort. The environment that we
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One does not necessarily expect books about food also to be about bigger ideas like oppression‚ spirituality‚ and freedom‚ yet Pollan defies expectations. Pollan begins with an exploration of the food-production system from which the vast majority of American meals are derived. This industrial food chain is mainly based on corn‚ whether it is eaten directly‚ fed to livestock‚ or processed into chemicals such as glucose and ethanol. Pollan discusses how the humble corn plant came to dominate the American
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How will Gene Doping effect the sports industry? Gene Doping is a different type of gene therapy that has caused a lot of controversy in the past 6-7 years due to the capability of what this method of doping could do. Gene doping therapy was started at Harvard in 1999 and was specifically used to get a substantial rise in the performance of athletes. This is done by genetically modifying cells to enhancing athletic performance. Gene therapy is done by using genes to help treat or stop diseases.
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use of banned performance-enhancing drugs (PEDS) in sports is commonly referred to as doping. The word doping is probably derived from the Dutch word dop‚ the name of an alcoholic beverage made of grape skins used by Zulu warriors in order to enhance their prowess in battle. The term became current around the turn of the 20th century‚ originally referring to illegal drugging of racehorses. ‘Doping’ however is as old as competitive sport itself. Modern times - In 1904 Olympics marathon
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Dope or Quit "Doping means to make use of physiological substances in immoderate quantity or abnormal method from healthy people whose only aim is to obtain an artificial increase of the performance during the competition" (Vittozzi). Doping has been around for more than 100 years now‚ and has had many different forms such as using caffeine for a simple boost‚ to more serious things like anabolic steroids or blood doping. Blood doping is one of the many different ways athletes will increase their
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Blood doping is a way to enhance your athletic ability illegally. Although this is not as common as steroids‚ or other drugs‚ blood doping is still a serious threat to an athlete’s body if done wrong‚ or overused. Blood doping is most easily explained as an athlete getting extra red blood cells to increase their stamina. This process is as complicated as it sounds‚ with many different things that could go wrong. To first start out this process you would have to have a trustworthy doctor‚ or somebody
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