I point out two cases lately where our betters seem to be our lessers. As I recall from a recent article trust in government was high (85%) through the early sixties and has been for the most part quite low since. This is not just an issue in the US, but in Europe (at least ) also. Trust in institutions is low across the board relative to what society experienced when your parents or grandparents were "young."

This effects us as we rely on institutions such as CIVL, WADA, etc. in our sport. Mostly we have a very distance relationship with these institutions (unless you organize a World Championships). When will the trust return?

http://trustbut.blogspot.com/2008/10/corruption-and-incompetency.html

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.racing/msg/9f79ed77d23a7345?hl=en&pli=1 

3. CAS is an extremely corrupt system and the lawyers in the CAS pool are basically white-collar criminals running their own court syndicate where one hand washes the other. It's a pay-to-play system. But I already knew that years ago because the IOC controls CAS and WADA and it's only about protecting their money interests and TV image with sponsors. It has little to do with justice for athletes.

The sections in the brief that show almost outright corruption and egregious incompetency and Rules violations are on pages 24-26, 32-33, and 61-64.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/health/policy/04drug.html?hp

One of the nation’s most influential psychiatrists earned more than $2.8 million in consulting arrangements with drug makers from 2000 to 2007, failed to report at least $1.2 million of that income to his university and violated federal research rules, according to documents provided to Congressional investigators.