steroids-sportsThis is the question posed by the non-profit organization in their new website http://sports.procon.org.

ProCon.org is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) public charity whose mission statement reads: “Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan primarily pro-con format.”

Their latest online project contains nearly 30 questions about the use of drugs in sports.

PR News lists some of the topics for some heated discussion on the Web:

* Tiger Woods‘ alleged LASIK surgery to improve his vision to 20/15 is ethically different than an athlete taking a banned substance

* there is a correlation between the 5% (approximate) of middle schoolers who take anabolic steroids and the use of such substances by their athlete role models

* the testing labs, such as the one that found cyclist Floyd Landis guilty of using banned drugs, are credible and reliable

* the teammates of sprinter Marion Jones should return their Olympic gold medals. None of them tested positive for banned drugs although Jones confessed to having used them.


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