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That's exactly what I thought. The Froome tests were the biggest example I thought - when the results said he's either a top, top level athlete, or someone getting the benefits of blood doping, he came to the conclusion that he was blood doping rather than the slightly more obvious answer of the richest team hiring the best cyclist to ride fastest*
*I could be wrong, in which case I'll eat my words one day if it all comes out
As someone who makes a lot of his credibility as a scientist, he suffers an awful lot from confirmation bias.