Research Project

How about:

Has the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs hurt the credibility of World Records and will these Records continue to fall without the use of PED's?

Agree, and use the strong statistical ananlysis of the release of PED's and the progression of world records. SI actually had a good article on this 5-7 years ago. Who did they mention........Komen and Geb, imagine that.

Don't do that, you can't write a research paper on that!! How are you going to write all of thatm arent research papers like 20 pgs or something!?!? Plus what sources would you use? Explore more options, ask Wejo about this one

harvard PHD wrote:

Don't do that, you can't write a research paper on that!! How are you going to write all of thatm arent research papers like 20 pgs or something!?!? Plus what sources would you use? Explore more options, ask Wejo about this one

Dumbest post of the day award...

I mean, how much research could their possibly be on drugs? (note: sarcasm, for the slower folks) You could EASILY write a paper on the topic listed in the 2nd post, and yes that qualifies as a persuasive topic.

How about a similar topic- the pros or cons of (performance enhancing drug here) on distance running (or other event).

You could then research the medical literature fairly extensively using medline or pubmed.com on the physiologic effects of said drug- positives, negatives, etc.

Or, take it from the slant of how drugs intended for terrible diseases have been used to enhance sporting activites.

you can write 20 pages alone on the irony that the same drugs that Lance Armstrong took to recover from Cancer (such as taking EPO to recover from chemo) are the same drugs that are banned by the TDF. I think it's the perfect topic for a athlete to write a great paper on

A question I used to have my grad ex phys class do as a takehome final -- how much and what would you take with you in a pack on your back that you had to carry to get as far as you could go on foot, without getting supplies from any outside source (including rain water). Final question to answer is how far you would get. Things you would have to research are military research on how big a pack a person can realistically carry, how much you would expect to sweat off each day (or total fluid loss per day through sweat, urine, expired air), what part of day to travel and when to rest, . You are freee to set the daytime high temperature and nighttime lows (I used 85 high and 45 low and low humidity and no clouds any of the time)

Interesting question, jtupper. Bit misleading of you though to direct the guy to military research on pack weight. Have you never been to Africa on your travels? Seen some mighty small African women carry loads on their heads that would put a linebacker to shame. And do it for mile after mile chatting like fishwives. Don't just think about how much you can carry, but how you can carry it. You'll be surprised.

Thanks to all you, I am going to see what I can scrape up with the PED's topic. That seems like the one that will work. Thanks again okay. Best of luck!