xenonscreams wrote:
I kind of already did. Albuterol is legal. Epstein chose to totally ignore that fact while driveling about inhalers.
That's not an example of something being taken out of context. It is an example of a detail that was omitted that you think should have been included.
One reason Epstein may have omitted this detail is because, strictly speaking, albuterol is not (always) legal:
"The presence of albuterol in urine in excess of 1000ng/mL is presumed NOT to be an intended therapeutic use, and may be considered as an adverse analytical finding, possibly leading to a sanction."
http://www.usada.org/substances/prohibited-list/athlete-guide/Another, far more obvious reason he may have omitted it is because the point he was making is that despite Salazar's claim that he didn't push meds on anyone, his athletes were basically trading inhalers. Those contain prescription medication. Salazar is not a doctor. He's not supposed to be doing this stuff. Xanax isn't performance-enhancing either, but Salazar can't just hand out benzos to people because they are prescription drugs.
When Salazar said, “asthma medication has been proven not to be performance enhancing," he was trying to justify giving one athlete albuterol that was prescribed to someone else.
Make sense?
Anyway, implied that you had a lot of examples of Epstein taking things out of contexts, but considering the job you did with this one, I won't ask for others.