Conclusive proof that HGH improves baseball performance

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My alternate title: Studies show that HGH doesn't help. Same studies also show that HGH doesn't NOT help. Wait, what? Here's what happens. Stanford puts together a study and Mercury News reports it . Right there in the article, the researchers admit that this barely applies to professional athletes: Further work is needed to measure its impact in athletes, Liu said. "This study summarizes ... [link]

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HGH Study Redux
Published 3/21/2008 by Shyster at ShysterBall
Dex at Gaslamp Ball accuses me of offering misleading commentary in connection with this post the other day about that Standford HGH study. I'll admit that the post would have done much better to have a question mark after "The HGH Myth" in the title, as the study described in the article I linked to does -- as I said in the post -- have a ton of caveats. But to claim, like Gaslamp does, that I have some sort of PED-apologist agenda, or that my post, when linked by someone like THT creates some misleading propaganda campaign is silly. The three assertions ...

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