[WackySam]

Well, it could if her mom was a hematology researcher or something, lol. My Mom is a Lance fan, if that means anything. Alas, she was only a math professor, although maybe there's something in number theory that makes her believe that some of the wilder accuations don't add up! ;-)

It's pretty common knowledge that the EPO hormone is undetectable after 72 hours.

And, while there are other ways to know that a person has used EPO (qty of young red blood cells, an elevated hematocrit level above prior tested levels, etc.) all traces (and benefits) of using EPO will be gone after 90 days.

[leilani]

I'll take your word for it over any of our moms, how's that?

I was pretty up on all that EPO & blood doping stuff a couple of TdFs ago, but I'm no longer fluent. Also, I'm not of the scientific persuasion, so I am hampered by my extreme idiocy.

But you know, that wacky thing that just came to me about him possibly having become a chimera after treatment with allogeneic natural EPO back in his cancer days and having cells now which are different genetically (& which would therefore allow him to do allogeneic epoetin instead of synthetic all he wanted because as a chimera he's supposed to have heterogeneous cells, so it wouldn't be evidence of doping as it would for everyone else) sure sounds like.... a great script idea for House, maybe.

But with all their unethical sources at the French drug testing labs, I think we would have all heard about it from L'Equipe if Lance Armstrong was a chimera, lol. ;-)