Sidney Gendin

About the author: Sidney Gendin is the author of More Steroids, Please, and is a retired professor of philosophy from Eastern Michigan University.

Governments and sports federations are wrong for continuing to ban the use of performance-enhancing drugs like steroids. Steroids are less hazardous to human health than smoking or drinking, and society has traditionally permitted people to engage in risky activities, such as mountain climbing, when the danger posed only affects the individual involved. In addition, ineffective and more costly dietary supplements, which falsely claim to work just like steroids, are legal. Steroid use by athletes should not be considered unnatural or cheating—the drugs simply allow athletes to perform at their very best.

Isn't it time for the brainwashed public to know the truth about steroids? In their ideological...