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While drugs may damage the health of the players that take them, they are even more pernicious for the game as a whole. Among players, performance enhancing drug-use creates a divide between drug-takers and drug-abstainers. Those who strengthen themselves with drugs gain an unfair advantage. Aside from this clear violation of sporting ethics, drugs have led to a game more focused on brute force rather than teamwork or even individual finesse. Instead of a well-rounded game with defense, strategy and teamwork, over-powered homeruns now all-too-often clinch the victory...
...Pfeffer argue, can make significant contributions to the advancement of science. But Olsen and Pfeffer’s attempt to publish negative results does not account for a crucial aspect of scientific inquiry. Although the idea of publishing negative results would benefit science as a whole, individual scientists gain very little until a critical mass of negative results is published in their field...
...avenues to pursue. Negative results can be helpful in planning further experiments or overthrowing old ways of thinking about problems, but they add very little to the knowledge of how the world really works. Until a large number of negative papers are published in a given field, scientists will gain little by publishing their negative results since the only people to benefit will likely be competitors...
...great thing is we’ll see [Brown] again at Sprints, and we’ll gain a considerable amount of speed in the next couple of weeks,” Psutka said. “I expect it will be a different story when we meet again...
...Crimson had the outside lane around the main turn in the course, and saw by Yale and Princeton’s inability to gain on Harvard’s boat that it had the speed advantage. The Crimson held onto its lead through the finish line...