Floyd Landis: an unsafe conviction, regardless of the quality of the data / N.K. Faber. – (Clinica Chimica Acta (2010) 411 (12 October) : p. 117-118)
- doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2009.10.001. Epub 2009 Oct 12.
Comment on:
Bad Science: The instrumental data in the Floyd Landis case / Robert D. Blackledge. – Clinica Chimica Acta (2009) 406 (22 May) ; p. 8-13)
- doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2009.05.016. Epub 2009 May 22
Advocacy versus impartial scientific review: a problem for scientists and the courts / Larry D. Bowers. – (Clinica Chimica Acta (2009) 406 (19 May) ; p. 14-17)
- doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2009.05.006. Epub 2009 May 19
The debate in the Clinica Chimica Acta has centered on the quality of the isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) data in the Floyd Landis case.
Here, some fundamental problems with current doping tests are outlined with the purpose to strongly argue from a fairly broad perspective that Floyd Landis is the victim of an unsafe conviction. For simplicity, the IRMS data quality is not questioned. Neither do we wish to discuss the processing of the (raw) data, although e.g. not being able to reproduce calculations during the trial does not speak in favor of the prosecution. Nevertheless, one can imagine that this author finds it particularly disturbing that accounts in the open literature largely ignore serious doubts about the IRMS method on the side of some anti-doping researchers.
