NEW YORK (AP) — Just hours after baseball assured Congress it’s working to address the sport’s doping problem, scholars debated whether performance-enhancing drugs should even be banned.
Intelligence Squared, an organization that holds Oxford-style debates on such topics as global warming and illegal immigration, hosted a doping debate that included two-time National League MVP Dale Murphy and former World Anti-Doping, Agency chief Dick Pound.
“More people died playing baseball than died of steroid use,” declared Dr. Norman Fost, a professor of pediatrics and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin who supports allowing the drugs.