rekrunner wrote:
I don't want to discourage the use of studies, and talking about their findings. It's all the other personal attacks and drama that surrounds issues that are 1) completely manufactured, and 2) not relevant to the discussion, that I, if not anyone or everyone else, could do without.
Take for example, these new "issues" of my degree, and now the "cowardice" of anonymity.
It started in a post between "m!ndweak" and "JonO" -- nothing really to do with me -- where he makes a false statement about my credentials.
I guess I could let it go, but that's not really correct either is it?
This was an unprovoked personal attack, as a throwaway comment in a discussion that has nothing to do with me.
Then, like gasoline on fire, because I dared to respond, and ask him to prove his claim (and not his bravery), he:
1) Claim I called him a coward -- you can clearly go back and see I did not
2) Use that as a basis to call me a coward
It's a wrong reaction and an over-reaction based on a misperceived action on my part.
Now if this follows the same pattern as previous dramas, this will be a recurring point in many future threads, where he will repeat that I called him a coward (which I did not), and that I am the real ball-less coward for hiding behind anonymity. It will somehow again become my fault for something he completely manufactured.
I don't think that's what this forum is supposed to be about -- a playground for all these dramas.
At the end of the day, my degree and my identity are not important to this forum, and not relevant to "Alex Hutchinson calls out CANOVA over study confirming EPO works on Kenyan runners". These were non-issues that should not have even come up in the first place.
But getting back to your admiration of his use of studies, I recall a flurry of EPO studies which led to an opinion that Coe likely took EPO in the 1970s.