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Old 02-25-2007, 12:07 PM
lacticacid lacticacid is offline
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Default Re: Floyd Landis - Innocent?

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This is just the standard "attack the labs" tactic that people in this spot (and criminal defendants) use. It looks like there are procedural problems, etc.

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How do you prove you are innocent? You attack the procedure that falsely said you were doping. This isn't getting off on a technicality, it is getting off because the test results can not be trusted.

His testosterone levels were not elevated. It was his his other hormone levels that were depressed. One of the charges against the lab is that the used the mass spec incorrectly.

The IMRS results were gathered using a faulty procedure. The results themselves were ambigous, as at some labs they would have been read as negative.

The same two technicians performed both tests. Of course they are going to find the same results. The whole B sample testing process is flawed. There should be some sort of double blind procedure with the sample being tested and fake samples that are also being tested to remove bias.
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