Steroids are an unstoppable force

Michael Tchong has written an interesting paper on his site Darwin on Steroids:  his claim is that while 75% of Americans object to steroid use, Marion Jones is part of evolution

SAN FRANCISCO — 08-Oct-07 — Marion Jones is capturing headlines with an alleged admittance that she used steroids. A Friday poll of Facebook members shows that most Americans object to the use of performance-enhancing drugs, with 75% agreeing that steroids use in sports should be banned. But Michael Tchong, trend analyst at Ubercool (http://www.ubercool.com), believes Jones is symbolic of a “Darwin on Steroids” trend, which itself is propelled by the “Time Compression” Ubertrend, both whirlwind phenomena that suggest that human evolution and life, respectively, are accelerating. “Approval creep has begun,” notes Tchong, “already 13% of Facebook users feel steroids should be allowed, while 12% are not sure.” Adds Tchong, “That’s not surprising given a culture that indirectly approves of the near-robotic performance of steroid-pumping adults by paying $752,467 for Barry Bonds’ record-setting ball, for example. That type of implicit approval sends mixed signals to America’s youth, who are increasingly turning to steroids.” “The bottomline is that the Darwin on Steroids trend is an unstoppable force because science has become an integral part of human evolution,” observes Tchong. “So, we should begin to face the music and accept the notion that steroids are here to stay and embrace them.”