Do any of these "contaminated" supplements even have anything meaningful in them except the "contaminants"? Don't sports supplements work primarily via the placebo effect?
The supplement-seller can maintain the fiction that its product does something, and keep up demand among athletes looking for that tiny extra edge, if every so often the product comes out "contaminated" with drugs that really do something, sort of like how unregulated medicines used to be "contaminated" with opium.
Do any of these "contaminated" supplements even have anything meaningful in them except the "contaminants"? Don't sports supplements work primarily via the placebo effect?
The supplement-seller can maintain the fiction that its product does something, and keep up demand among athletes looking for that tiny extra edge, if every so often the product comes out "contaminated" with drugs that really do something, sort of like how unregulated medicines used to be "contaminated" with opium.
