Challenge To Medical Research Scientists
“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.” Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), German philosopher.
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Schopenhauer.
A challenge for the physician investigator willing to expose the use of unsound scientific design and methodology found in anabolic steroid research is an unheralded opportunity. It will not be possible [read impossible] to repeat the findings of the studies demonstrating positive anabolic improvements and increased muscle strength during AAS administration but now include the period after anabolic steroid cessation, hypogonadism, with the end-point being the study groups return to their baseline values. The studies completely and entirely dismiss and ignore the significance of sex hormone measurements. Further, they ignore a basic tenet of life’s characteristics, homeostasis. Even more significantly and disturbing is that these very studies in already compromised individuals, the elderly, HIV+, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic kidney disease (hemodialysis), chronic glucocorticoid use, will now face an additional comorbid condition, hypogonadism, with its own attendant problems.