However, a small group of hereticsāacademics, mostly, but also people like Loganāhave started to challenge that view. The war on doping, they contend, has done far more harm than good: wasting money, retarding medicine, fostering corruption, and trampling on athletesā rights and dignity while failing to protect their health. The ongoing Russian scandalāwhich features bribes, extortion, and state security agents infiltrating a Moscow anti-doping laboratory to slip doctored urine samples through a secret hole in an office wall, all resulting in at least 111 Russian athletes being banned from Rioāis not, to them, a meaningful victory. Rather, itās a sign of ongoing defeat. Sports keep fighting. Drugs keep winning. Wouldnāt it be safer, rational, and arguably more honest to end PED prohibition? To permit, study, and regulate the drug use that already happens regardless of the rules?