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Thomas H. Murray

Thomas H Murray is the author of Good Sport: Why Our Games Matter and How Doping Undermines Them, published in January 2018 by Oxford University Press.

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ALL NATURAL?

If You’re Gene Doping, Are Your Talents ‘Natural’?

The concept of the ‘natural’ turns out to be imperfect, contestable, but also necessary and useful.

Thomas H. Murray

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GENETIC GIFTS

How Gene Doping Will Change Sports

Genetically altering your talents might change what it means to be natural—or not.

Thomas H. Murray

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TAMPERING WITH THE EVIDENCE

We Can’t Know If Russian Olympians Are Actually Clean

Three hundred eighty-nine athletes were provisionally approved by the IOC. How? We don’t know.

Thomas H. Murray

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