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. :rolleyes:

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. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Triple V

WELL DONE BARRY!
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.

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Is that you Louie Armstrong?

Only joking, credit where credits due, you know your science.

Not so much that Breno...rather I just don't believe everything that I read or that is reported, especially so where the 4th Estate is concerned.
Sadly, the Racing & our general Industry media locally, Interstate and world wide asked no more a question of this ridiculous claim when it first surfaced than they asked today of Tim Flannery's absolutely outrageous standing upon the Opera House forecourt claim that over the ensuing century sea levels world wide would rise by greater than the height of an 8 storey building. Both the Arsenic as a component of ITPP claim and that which old mate Tim made today belong squarely in the same place...the bullshit pile.

Yes well done. I don't really know enough about the subject but in the past I have been told by far more qualified people than me pretty much what triple has been writing for months re: arsenic.

"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."

G'day Don C,

If you take a stroll through all the articles that are dragged up by any internet search engine you care to use, the sheer weight of repetition of the mistake and how widespread it became is astounding. NOBODY questioned it.
It started off in late October 2011 and went viral...even the reputable scribes & wesbites repeated it and almost verbatim & have kept on doing so for months and months, in fact right up until last week when BL finally called it for crap. There are even some articles published early on there where the man initially at the centre of it, VIC TB Head Steward Terry Bailey, appears to solidly support the absolutely absurd conclusion/notion that Arsenic was a component of ITPP. Un-freaking-believable.