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by Worriedmom
The year is 1976, and the place is the Montreal Olympics. And it’s clear that something is wrong.
The East German women’s swim team is unstoppable. Inhuman, almost. Smashing every record, every competitor, sweeping every race – then jumping out of the pool like it wasn’t even challenging. Race after race, the American women – before this, favored to medal, if not win, most swimming events – are outclassed, demoralized, destroyed.
What could possibly be happening? Who are these women? Where did they come from and how are they dominating this Olympics so thoroughly? Today, of course, we know that the East German and other former USSR-bloc women athletes were part of massive, intensive, state-sponsored doping programs, that “processed” thousands of female athletes, pumping them full of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, and other performance enhancing drugs to turn them into athletic machines.
After the fall of the…
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The separation of church and state is a necessary part of a modern civilized society. Laws must be made in accordance with the reality that we know grounded in facts that the scientific method has allowed us to uncover. Does this necessarily happen even in so called civilized society? Of course not, secular societies are not much better when it comes to making rational laws and standards, but I do believe they have a better chance of legislating appropriately that religiously addled societies that need to take into account what the great mumbo-jumbo in the sky has to say on the pertinent issues at hand.
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