Talk:Major League Baseball drug policy

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HPAC?[edit]

As somebody who's not entirely au fait with baseball, I'm slightly confused by the repeated references to HPAC throughout the article. Who or what are they, and could somebody perhaps include a brief explanation or clarification fo what it stands for? I've tried searching on the internet myself but haven't been able to find anything actually stating what it stands for or who they are. - Chrism would like to hear from you 14:27, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am wondering the exact same thing. I consider myself quite knowledgeable when it comes to baseball and have never heard of this term. It appears that the article randomly introduces this acronym without giving any indication what it stands for. I also tried doing some research and could find nothing. Could someone please clarify in the article. --Mjp797 (talk) 22:43, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly why Wikipedia policy forbids use of primary sources -- the average person is not expert enough to understand the technical terms and full implications within the topic area. In theory any topic can better understood through the filter of an expert. Of course forbidding references to primary sources whic are increasingly avaialbe on the Internet is also academic protectionism and many cases unfounded elitism. With the exception of a couple of easily found terms, most people can in fat understand much of the referenced primary source. PS High performance affinity chromatography (HPAC)is in crude terms a machine used for rapid drug testing. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23245252 (just search keywords HPAC & drug) 2605:6000:1011:405A:DCAD:2E34:18D4:5F31 (talk) 07:45, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nitric acid[edit]

Why is "(nitric acid)" listed in the Steroids section? That's hardly a steroid, or any kind of banned substance, for that matter. 71.185.49.67 (talk) 00:32, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like vandalism to me, so I've removed it. It has been there for nearly three years. Thanks for pointing it out. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Factual Errors re Random Testing[edit]

The article states there is no random testing, but the MLB document linked to states that all players are tested at the start of the season, and receive a randomly scheduled test later, plus an additional 1400 random tests are performed at unannounced times. (Section 3.A.1 and 3.A.2) 24.6.159.150 (talk) 22:29, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The bottom of the list of steroids contains many substances that are not steroids at all, Everything after 61 is wrong, For example, human growth hormone is a peptide hormone like insulin of VGF. Csrborgia (talk) 16:19, 30 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization issues[edit]

Several sections have irregular capitalization, as if they are in fact quotes from a legal agreement, presumably the agreement that spells out MLB's drug policy. Should they be rephrased, or formatted as block quotes? Without additional secondary sources, the first option seems more difficult. Matuko (talk) 01:44, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]