Malcolm Gladwell, whose 10,000-Hour Rule has been upset by Sports Illustrated scribe David Epstein’s research for the book The Sports Gene, slid back into these tricky waters this week. In a New Yorker piece that cites Epstein’s work without acknowledging that Epstein’s work discredits one of the overriding themes of Gladwell’s Outliers, Gladwell makes an argument that appears to compare blood doping and PEDs favorably to inherent, advantageous genetic traits.
Read the full, original story here: Malcolm Gladwell’s value system: Doping is more honorable than genetic advantage
