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Justifying Failure: Columnist defends steroid testing high school athletes despite logic and evidence. What about police?

I'm amazed anyone can look at the results from Texas' experiment steroid testing high school athletes - which identified two steroid users out of more than 10,000 tests given - and think the idea was anything but an abominable failure. However, columnist Cedric Golden at the Austin Statesman believes that cost-benefit analysis is just fine ("Steroid problem should be tackled at home, not just with testing," July 3):So Texas taxpayers spent $3 million to expose two steroid users? The $1.5 million-per-positive test would appear from the outside to be a muscle-headed waste of our tax dollars. It would also suggest the other $3 million earmarked to test 40,000 to 50,000 athletes this coming school year should be put back in the vault. Not exactly...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 05, 2008 (boomark / email).