I don't know if I'm quite as cynical as he is. He basically thinks, if they are adults, they should be able to take whatever they want, as long as they are fully aware of the long-term effects of what they are taking.  Otherwise, the "dopers" have a hugely unfair advantage over the "non-dopers."

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this.  Steroid use is far, far from benign. I wish that steroids, and any other other performance-enhancing drugs, just never existed.  But they do, there are many sports "winners" who have used them, and some have gotten caught, but many have not. The system is messed up.  Maybe if athletics weren't so lucrative for so many, if there wasn't such pressure to "win at any cost," the tendency to make such heroes of the "winners," it might not be as bad.  It infects a whole lot of sports.

There have been in the past, for instance, reports of gymnasts with eating disorders (so that they would not get "too fat" for the sport).  The same with figure skaters.  And Google what wrestlers, and jockeys, do to "make weight."  All of this terribly bad for their bodies.