A Philosophical Debate on the Morality of Doping is Interesting but Beyond the Scope of Our Meta-Analysis

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We would like to thank Dr. Arandjelovic [1] for taking the time to read our meta-analysis [2], which statistically synthesized the personal and psychosocial predictors of doping use in sport and other physical activity settings. Unfortunately, his remarks reveal a misunderstanding regarding the scope of our paper. In essence, Dr. Arandjelovic charged us with ‘seasoning’ our science with moralistic bias. He then presents a number of philosophical questions that, although important and relevant to the doping landscape, have nothing to do with our meta-analysis or the studies contained within it. This distance between our work and the philosophical challenges to anti-doping policy and practice is further underscored by the invitation to engage in an intellectual debate on these issues in a sports ethics or medical ethics journal. …