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Messner is an interesting character, but the implication that this is due to brain damage suffered by climbing at high altitude without oxygen is offensive amd untrue. He had different ideas when he was in his 20s and still does in his 70s. At the very least he deserves respect for what he achieved at high altitude, rather than ridicule

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So he decided to go clean in 2006. In other words, as soon as Lance had retired. I'm guessing Land would have never allowed anyone on his team to not dope

Given his history, I guarantee this was unchecked nuerodivergence, trauma, and multiple disorders that developed from that. The guy was walking around in a kind of a trance. If he would have lived longer, I guarantee he would have come out of it. Not understanding the psychology he would make a rationalization for what has happened to him. Probably some type of conversion or something. You have to remember, while PC knife twisters constantly remind you how it was racist "even for his time" he was also specifically unusual in all his mannerisms for his time and his friends, who were pretty much the oppo of him in everyday, all noticed this strongly. The guy couldn't "get real with you" for one second. That's trauma behavior. It's like being in a fugue state for decades. You wouldn't even know if this was happening to you right now unless your behavior was noticably erratic.