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The science of doping

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The processes used to charge athletes with cheating are often based on flawed statistics and flawed logic, says Donald A. Berry.

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Figure 1: Metabolite data.

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  1. Donald A. Berry is head of the Division of Quantitative Sciences, chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Frank T. McGraw Memorial Chair of Cancer Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, 1400 Pressler Street, Houston, Texas 77030-1402, USA. dberry@mdanderson.org,

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See Editorial, page 667 . Donald Berry testified for the defence team of 1996 Olympian Mary Decker Slaney before a doping hearing board in 1997. He was paid for his time.

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Berry, D. The science of doping. Nature 454, 692–693 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/454692a

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