Chris Bell, creator of the new documentary “Bigger Stronger Faster*,” probably does not want you to take anabolic steroids. So it’s all the more remarkable that he’s made a film that more or less demolishes the pervasive idea that steroids pose a terrible risk to all and sundry who use them, especially “the children. What gives the film its teeth, however, is Bell’s patient, dogged pursuit of data, in the course of which he dismantles, brick by brick, our collective notion of steroids as a medical scourge. Television documentaries, news reports and congressional hearings on steroids deliver an unenlightening combination of (certainly understandable) sentiment about dead people and a lurid fascination with bulging body parts and derangement. Henry Waxman, Bell comes across as self-effacing and respectful, even if honestly disheartened to find that the people writing the laws don’t know what they’re talking about. We may say we hate drugs, but we love to watch people on steroids hit home runs, score touchdowns and win wrestling matches, and we pay handsomely for the privilege. read more
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