Surely if DMAA was as dangerous as it has been made out to be in the media coverage, there would be a confluence of evidence from the risks identified in clinical studies and a substantial body of case reports tying those risks to adverse and fatal outcomes?
It was a situation tailor made for a heroic burst from Andrew Flintoff, and the selectors will surely have that on their minds when they select the team for the next Test after close of play on Monday.
It wassurely with this in mind that Russia, in 2001 the first country to submit a continental-shelf claim, made a bid to extend its rights in both the Pacific and the Arctic oceans.