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Entries from blog.bioethics.net tagged with 'sports'
Track or Cross-Country? Genetic Tests Tell You How Your Kid Will Run
As of Monday, a Colorado-based company will begin offering a genetic test to help parents determine whether their child would be better suited to sprint or to run longer distances, says the NYT. Atlas Sports Genetics is offering this test for just $149 to parents who want to "match them... (read the rest)
The Olympics Heat Up Debate on Enhancement
With the Olympic competitions heating up, the debates on enhancement, sport, and the human form have more than left the starting blocks in the newspapers and online. Personally, I can't muster up more than a review of what's been written as I'm less than convinced that there are any really... (read the rest)
Art Caplan on Oscar Pistorious, the double amputee sprinter
Over at MSNBC, Art writes that he's not so sure that Pistorious should be allowed to compete in the Olympics: Should anyone who must run on prosthetic legs be allowed to compete in the Olympics or other sporting events? Oscar Pistorius, a college student from South Africa, has been told... (read the rest)
Art Caplan on steroids and sports
Over at Science Progress, Art looks at some of the arguments against -- and for -- the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Here's a clip: “Professional” wrestling has many fans in North America, Mexico, Asia and Europe. Its athletes can do impressive feats involving agility and strength. They are... (read the rest)
Following up: academic fraud, sitting on research, wrecked football players
Here are a few updates and extensions to earlier posts on blog.bioethics.net: Academic journal deja vu A few weeks back two researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center reported in Nature that they had found evidence of thousands of duplicated and plagiarized articles in biomedical journals. The researchers... (read the rest)
Even the winners eventually lose
Art Caplan recently popped up over at SI.com as part of a piece looking at some of the occupational health concerns of professional athletes. As Art points out, most pro athletes rely on team doctors. And those doctors often have a conflict of interest: "The doctors work for the clubs,... (read the rest)
Barry Bonds and enhancement's strike zone
The second half of the major league baseball season starts tonight and so continues Barry Bonds' pursuit of the career home run record (he needs four more to tie Hank Aaron). Normally such a chase would prompt enthusiastic attention, but in this case fans and media members are somewhat ambivalent.... (read the rest)
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