Armstronglivs wrote:
All of that is only speculation about what might have been possible but cannot be shown to be fact. What is fact is the positive tests. If the preponderance of them were inadvertent doping then testing would be thrown out for producing an unjust if actually erroneous result. It isn't, which suggests most positives aren't mistakes; they are dopers who have been caught and who have no sustainable defence.
This whole thread, and for that matter, the whole subject, is "only speculation about what might have been possible but cannot be shown to be fact". This is because there are many unknowns and few facts.
While the "positive test" could be considered a fact, it is the subsequent and often artificially rigid interpretation which is not, especially when the test results are necessarily coupled with a set of presumptions.
Your "if it were so, then" proposition is not a fact, but rather a strained self-serving rationalization based on your unrealistic expectation that you failed to see.
