Not really. TGH wasn't known, and therefore not illegal. Cortisone is legal.
In a lot of these cases you also lack any positive steroid tests on blood or the substances those particular athletes were using. Baseball need to be cleaned up of steroids, but there's a lot of hype, misinformation, and prosecutorial misconduct in the BALCO case.
I don't disagree. Just making the point that the logic of the author of the article is flawed by comparing caffeine with steroids to make the point that performance enhancement is no big deal...