An article that frames it all very well. And mentions the one possibility few in these parts want to really acknowledge or believe (highlighted below)
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inthemoneypodcast.com]
"Assuming the split sample comes back positive, there are only a few possibilities that exist.
Baffert is lying
There was contamination
Baffert isn’t lying – He just wasn’t aware of the treatment
Something else caused the positive Betamethasone test
. . .
Personally, option 4 is the scariest. Let me be very clear – I’m not suggesting the following is likely or for that matter, even possible. With the 2020 indictments of Jason Servis and Jorge Navarro, we learned that SGF-1000, while undetectable by current testing standards, can produce a “false positive†for dexamethasone – a corticosteroid, like Betamethasone. From a chemical structure standpoint, dexamethasone and Betamethasone differ by a single methyl group. They’re different to be sure but it’s like Coke vs. Pepsi. Could a false positive be in play here? I’m not sure, I don’t know enough about SGF-1000 to comment but if that statement from the FBI documents is accurate, it’s within reason."
