I don't think there is any way to combat the emotional ravings of grieving parents. The average mom and dad are going to relate to those people alot better than they will relate to the freakishly huge yet tiny subsection of society that eats and breathes iron. I wouldn't be too hard on these parents though. They suffer from a healthy dose of ignorance just like the vast majority. The gov't says steroids are bad for you, so they must be. After all, who can you trust if you can't trust your own gov't?? LOL.
I blame the media. ahem. Present company excluded. Primarily the "If it bleeds it reads. Hysteria sells." crowd. And the sports organizations that are promoting their own agendas at the expense of truth. Speculation and "news" go hand in hand nowadays. Most people in the news media have traded in their responsibility to the public for their desire for ratings. The truth just doesn't sell like the sensational.
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