Lichter finally calls 'No Clothes' on ITPP claims
WELL DONE BARRY!
Finally someone's stepped forward & called The Emperor for having no clothes on.
It has only taken the Australasian and International Racing Media some seven (7) freaking months to spot the endlessly repeated but with it totally incorrect nature of a claim that was 1st made by a Melbourne Journo during the 2011 Melbourne Cup Carnival, one which was subsequently & quite incredibly picked up via the Internet by a whole host of equally unresearched & evidently very lazy scribes & duly repeated WORLD wide on-line, in the daily and weekly press and sadly, throughout a number of Racing Industry magazines.
To quote a recent Lichter article....
"Internet suggestions that Arsenic is a component of ITPP are as nonsensical as saying a banana is a component of an apple".
Tell it like it is BL. Better late than never mate, better late than never.
For the record, it should be noted that this forum was all over that subject, as in there being serious questions over the authenticity of claims that Arsenic was a component of ITPP...and those posts date back as far as the last week of October, 2011.
By the way BL, despite finally calling bullshit.............you're not completely off the hook either. As recently as 8 days ago in one of your articles you wrote...
In more recent times, arsenic has again hit the headlines as a component of the drug ITPP, believed to be widely used in American harness racing.
ITPP, or myo-inositol-prispyrophosphate, was developed in France in 2005 and makes the haemoglobin in blood release more of its oxygen, quickly enhancing physical performance.
A testing assay was developed in Kentucky only late last year and Hong Kong has the only lab in the world which can detect it.
No doubt all you Journos paid attention in English but you should have done the same in Biology and Chemistry...instead of sitting up the back playing with the Bunsen Burner tap and carving your names in the desk with the pointy end of a compass.
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