#ICYMI: The Murky World of Doping in Sports

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🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly dive into the widespread world of doping in cycling, football and other sports with the help of Lance Armstrong, Neil deGrasse Tyson, skeptic and author Michael Shermer, psychologist Dr. Tom Hildebrandt and bioethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe to our channels on: Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360?mt=2 GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science TuneIn: http://www.tunein.com/playingwithscience NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly. And I'm Chuck Nice. This is playing with science. I hope you are ready
0:17.6	to take a trip into the clandestine and murky world of doping. This is the show we promised
0:22.9	you so snuggle up, get comfy, whatever works best for you. Some call it performance enhancement
0:28.4	others simply. And some call it a waste of doing drugs because there's only one reason to
0:35.6	really do them. So if you're an elite athlete and you took that deconjustent by mistake or maybe
0:41.2	you made a grab for that unaccredited food supplement, chances are that in the eyes of the
0:45.8	WADA you broke the rules and you're just a drug cheat. So what does it do? And how does it do it?
0:53.2	And how do you get away with it most importantly? And if you're a bad guy, you'll want to hear
0:58.0	about that. Right, in Nildegrass, Tyson's interview with Lance Armstrong, the two got to grips
1:02.8	with doping and cycling as well as other sports and just how much of a boost your performance can
1:08.4	get when you dope and then go on to debate whether the future will be clean. And I assure you,
1:14.4	you are going to want to hear what Lance Armstrong says about that one. Yeah. And bringing us their
1:20.0	extensive expertise or publisher of Skeptic Magazine and the author of the moral arc Michael
1:24.9	Shermer, clinical psychologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, Dr. Tom Hildebrand,
1:30.4	and medical ethicist and author of the ethics of sports, Dr. Arthur Kaplan. Yeah, that's
1:37.2	basis covered there. Busy show. So start the clock. See if we break any records. And if we do,
1:43.2	it'll be sample time. But don't worry, Chuck. We'll flip a coin for it. Oh, no, don't worry. I'm
1:47.5	having somebody else pee in a cup from me. Okay. That's that covered. Right. So we know people
1:53.6	dope. We know athletes are dope. We go back to ancient Greece and know that they chewed on
1:58.6	animals' testicles to get testosterone. And if you did that now, you're banned. That's me.
2:03.2	Isn't it just? So now we now, now we're just getting to this point where people have been
2:09.3	outraged, but it's been going on for so long. And now we're coming to terms with the fact that
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