Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2026-02-06
Books mentioned on 662. If You’re Not Cheating, You’re Not Trying
In sports, the rules are meant to be sacrosanct. But when it comes to performance-enhancing drugs, the slope is super-slippery.
Stephen Dubner discussed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Positively False by Floyd Landis and others, and Doping by April Henning and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a classic nineteenth-century children's novel about a young girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantastical realm populated by peculiar creatures and nonsensical rules.
Discussed“Have you read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?”
Where to get it
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Positively False
Discussed“Your denial was pretty robust. You wrote a book, right? Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France, which was not a truthful account, plainly.”
Where to get it
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Doping
Discussed“April Henning, along with her co-author Paul D'Amato, has written about all this in a book called Doping: A Sporting History.”
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