Amby Burfoot says it out loud - Chepngetich is doping

It's his opinion?

An ex(pert) doper? He doesn't know anything more about the subject than you (OK...) or me.

Laughable to discuss his comment in dozens of posts and trying fo figure out what exactly he wanted to say.

He thinks she is doping, that's fine. Does he know it? No.

He describes textbook "appeal to authority" fallacy. In intellecutal circles, the only things that can give opinions any value are supporting facts, evidence, and controlled observations. That is clearly not the case here as Burfoot tells us he has no factual basis for his expressed thoughts and feelings.

Burfoot points to some general statistics but then concludes we should not trust lies, damn lies, and statistics. He says not to blindly trust the new world record, implying we can blindly trust in doping. He is partly right. We should not blindly trust anything, even "expert" opinions worth a pinch of sh*t. This is a lesson Armstronglivs failed to learn five decades ago, and he is none the wiser for it.

Exactly. He believes she is doping - that's fine. He doesen't know it.

I have acknowledged what Burfoot said, as he made it perfectly clear in his own words that he is expressing his thoughts and feelings -- you keep calling it a belief -- based on no evidence and without a clue.

You keep dodging the question. Is Burfoot considered an expert on doped marathon performance? Could he be recognized as such in front of any court? If he lacks the relevent experience in the relevant domain, then what is his opinion really worth?

Wow, this thread keeps going on and on.

These are all your non-expert opinions, not worth a pinch of sh*t. You presume too much.

To believe something is not an opinion.

what are you guys arguing about?

No one knows (except the person at ground 0).

End of discussion.

Do you not get tired of making ignorant statements about people you don't know.
I feel sorry for you.

Both seem applicable here:

belief: "an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof."

opinion: "a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge."

This only proves you jump to false conclusions based on no facts.

What does it mean that Burfoot's article expressing of his thoughts and feelings without any evidence or clue stands? No one disputed these were his personal thoughts and feelings.

You dismiss that he clearly believes she is doping, for the reasons he supplies, because he also says he has no proof. But that conversely means he has no proof she isn't doping - and neither do you. It is just as possible she dopes. If the "evidence" of her doping was a failed drug test there would be no need for him to express an opinion about whether she is doping. Her being a doper becomes a fact, not an opinion. However, since most dopers don't test positive it is a perfectly legitimate subject for speculation and especially with a Kenyan athlete today.

But what we do know for a fact is that there is no evidence you will accept of doping, and certainly not a a failed drug test, as you have argued for years that Houlihan isn't a doper, notwithstanding her confirmed doping violation. So Burfoot can never prove to you that Chepngetich is doping. No one can.

Good grief! Dude, you have zero credibility and nothing you say means anything. Surely you are self-aware enough to see that no one approves of anything you say? Right? Hopefully? Geez, as far as can be determined you derive pleasure with your thousands of posts; a perverse type of self-stimulation. Your obsessive fixation with arguing against even the tiniest disagreement is both vulgar and obscene.

If Chepngetich is doping or not is not a point of some opinion.

She does or she doesn’t - we just don't know which one is currently true.