The defense is now presenting its case. I've sifted through Landis' online powerpoint, and I'm not that impressed. For starters, he still maintains that his abnormal testosterone ratio was simply a matter of too much whiskey. Sure. And while he makes a decent case that the carbon isotope test wasn't perfect, he doesn't show how the minor flaws might have conjured up a positive result.
I still think this is the most plausable scenario.
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I don't see how you could have come to this conclusion since there is not a single mention of whisky or alcohol in the presentation, or in the ADRB filing.
A thorough critique of the presentation, along with easly download links for all the documents is at http://trustbut.blogspot.com
TBV
Since he didn't offer any substantive new justifications or evidence - or disavow his previous justifications - I assumed that he was sticking by his original story, which was that his elevated testosterone ratio was due to alcohol consumption.
kind of ironic that a guy with a blog titled "the frontal cortex" would post about something that he didn't actually read.
I did read the powerpoint display, and much of the documenting material. But unless you indulge in some serious conspiracy mongering - and maybe there was a conspiracy, I don't pretend to know - I still don't see how a little white-out and sterility problems with the sample account for a raised testosterone ratio. That's what I was trying to say. I certainly hope Landis is innocent. But until he offers up a new alibi - i.e., the French framed me - or disavows his old alibi, then I'll go with what he's given us, which is the whisky story.
There doesn't need to be a conspiracy for the result to be suspect, only a lack of competence...they have rules and procedures for anaytical laboratories for a reason.
If you can't figure out how mismanging sample identification, failing to follow laboratory procedure or testing samples that have shown signs of degredation could have an impact on the quality of data that the laboratory produces, then again I question the title of your blog.