No harm

Mr. Chafets writes that performance enhancing drugs should be legalized, on the grounds that as currently used, they haven’t been proved to do any harm, nor any demonstrable good, either, and that there will never be a foolproof way to test for them. - NY TimesUm, actually? I can prove that performance enhancing drugs can prove harm in two words: Ken Caminiti. Here's an MVP that died as a result of performance enhancing drugs, less than five years ago. Did his death just disappear into a memory hole here, or have we just kind of lost track of that?Look, I understand how steroids have really complicated everything in baseball, have tossed the record books into a cocked hat, and have become an ethical mine field. Why there's a prohibition against enhancing your body via chemicals (steroids), but not surgical (LASIK), is a miss on a lot of levels. But there's a world of difference between trying to get an approximation of the steroid problem in baseball and just letting it ...