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> Occam’s razor requires us to consider the possibility they just had a really good, well timed dosage of performance enhancing drugs for Secretariat back in th
by kibwen 2mo ago
> Occam’s razor requires us to consider the possibility they just had a really good, well timed dosage of performance enhancing drugs for Secretariat back in the day.
No, Occam's Razor suggests the simplest possible explanation. To suggest that they figured out how to dope horses in 1973 and then promptly forgot how for the next fifty years is a complicated explanation. The simplest explanation, the Occam's Razor explanation, would just be that it was a fluke of nature.
- vova_hn2 2mo ago> and then promptly forgot Maybe anti-doping rules enforcement became stricter?
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- bsder 2mo ago> The simplest explanation, the Occam's Razor explanation, would just be that it was a fluke of nature. Horse doping is old. Schwarzenegger was doped up and winning in 1968+ so the science was there. The idea that someone wouldn't dope up a horse for a marquis event like this is absurd. And once Secretariat became that famous, nobody across the industry was going to kill the golden goose by pointing out doping. However, the window was narrow. New tests came online in the mid 1980s to detect horse doping. The fact that nobody has been able to get even close to Secretariat's times given significant advances in nutrition and training is extremely suspicious.