this was recently forwarded to me.

Press release: here

Tracking sheet: here

since we don't play that class shit, we don't do executive summaries.  but a glorious and equalizing people's review would look something like this: there are some strong indications that when these products are utilized for their intended use, they may make existinging problems worse or cause new problems. 

for trade products such as procrit, aranesp and epogen, this is not good news.  but what about us? the proletariat, the cyclists, the citizens?  what does this mean for the people of the glorious revolution?  as with all things in life, there are several ways to look at this.  in terms of the glass being half empty, i'm not sure i see a downide here.  you might think that this sort of publicity of the deleterious effects would mean that these types of chemicals would be less enticing to dopers.  think again.  these people are not smart.

now if you're a glass is half full sort of person, this represents all sorts of opportunities.  first off, struggling young amateur cyclists can expect the prices at places like this to plummet.  i'm a little rusty on my market economics so i may need some help here: if demand goes down, availability goes up and if availability goes up, prices go down?  is that right?  as someone more interested in social justice than the exploitation of a sub-human working class for profit, it was never intuitive for me.  if government health programs, alogn with private insurance companies, stop covering these medicines in a lot of cases where they are currently indicated, this will cause prices to drop.  ergo, this stuff will be cheap and plentiful for young amateur cyclists.  qed.  wait, is that a glass half empty thing or glass half full thing?  i guess it depends.  other benefits: pharma swag can be had for a song.  though i don't know if it's really swag if you pay for it.  and who would pay for pharma swag anyway?

so many questions.  so little blog space.

-sg