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The source, The WeighTrainer Blog: The HIstory of Steroids in Bodybuilding written by Casey Butt, provides a historical insight into the creation and early advent of steroid use into the professional bodybuilding scene. In the article, Butt analyzes early attempts at synthesising and using testosterone to boost the performance and muscle mass of athletes. Butt also gives us a timeline for when the steroids we know of today were actually able to boost performance and muscle mass, since the earlier performance enhancing drugs really didn't do much in terms of increasing your physical prowess. This resource is important with regards to my research question not so much because it gives an outlook on whether or not steroids should continue to be banned in competitive bodybuilding, but because it gives a background on how steroids came to be used by professional bodybuilders, and how the first bodybuilding organization to drug test their competitors came to be. This source relates to my other sources by providing background and context for the research question, but remains distinct because it does not argue for or against the use of steroids in professional bodybuilding. While I believe this to be an excellent source, it does have some shortcomings. For one, while it mentions the sources of the information found in the article, it doesn't give proper citing with a works cited page or in- text citations. Another source of concern with regards to this article is that it isn't exactly a academic source, since its from the Weightrainer blog.