Paul Willingham (the owner of Elite Fitness, who often posts as the fictional “George Spellwin”) was interviewed a couple of years back, when a kid died from taking DNP. As everyone knows, DNP can ****ing kill you, end of story. Take too much, you ****ing fry yourself. EVERYONE knows that…but let’s see if the owner of Elite Fitness (the alleged “author” of many articles on bodybuilding and performance enhancing drugs). At least I thought everyone knew that. A few years back, some kid went to Elite Fitness, and got some DNP from a dude on the site, after he read about how great it is. And he ****ing died. So Businessweek interviewed George Spellwin (Paul Willingham), and asked him if DNP is dangerous. Here’s an excerpt from the article in Businessweek:
SEPTEMBER 2, 2002
COVER STORY
The Underground Web
Drugs. Gambling. Terrorism. Child Pornography. How the Internet makes any illegal activity more accessible than ever
DRUGS. The easy availability of drugs on the Web proved deadly for Eric Perrin. An avid bodybuilder, Perrin bought some dinitrophenol, or DNP, over the Net last summer because it was supposed to help him lose weight and get better muscle definition. While DNP is promoted on some fitness Web sites, it’s illegal to sell for human consumption. The chemical is legal only for use in industrial applications such as a coating on railroad ties to kill fungus. In humans, DNP can shut down the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system. Last August, Perrin took DNP for several days. As his body temperature began to rise and his heart started to race, his mother, Barbara, grew concerned. “He told me, `Don’t worry, Mom, I’ll be all right,”‘ she says. “He was in a lot of pain.” Eric died on Aug. 6 at a hospital near his home in Baldwin, N.Y. He was 22.
While the local U.S. Attorney is prosecuting the man who allegedly sold Eric Perrin the DNP, Barbara Perrin thinks the dealer isn’t the real culprit. She places most of the blame on the Internet and Elite Fitness, a New York company that runs the Web site where her son read about the supposed benefits of DNP and got in touch with the dealer. She is convinced that without the Web, her son would be alive today. “DNP is not something you find easily,” she says. Without the Internet, “Eric may have gotten steroids, but not DNP.”
Even today, Elite Fitness provides what appears to be a forum for people to meet who are interested in drugs. With a quick search of the site, BusinessWeek found dozens of postings from bodybuilders promoting the benefits of DNP, explaining how to use the drug, and downplaying its health risks. After one visitor asked on an electronic bulletin board why people die from taking DNP, one of the site’s moderators responded by writing: “Get your fluids, and you’ll [b]e A-O.K.” Another moderator posted ground rules for members to communicate in private so they could share information about “sources.” And members write that the best way to check out a source for restricted drugs is to e-mail a moderator. Paul Willingham, a partner at New York’s Caliber Design Inc., which owns Elite Fitness, says the site simply provides a vehicle for bodybuilders to talk about any subject. “We don’t provide a forum to buy and sell drugs,” he says. “We’re building a community for discussing physical fitness.”
Willingham, like the moderator on Elite, argues that DNP is safe. He says that DNP is only dangerous if it is combined with other drugs, such as Ecstasy or speed. Dr. Thomas Manning, the chief toxicologist at the Nassau County Medical Examiner’s office, says that Perrin had no other chemicals in his body at the time of death.
Ok, Paul/George…DNP is only dangerous if you combine it with other drugs??? This is the owner of a huge site that claims to be about fitness, and he says you can ONLY die from DNP if you use it with other drugs (even though the kid from the article above wasn’t on anything else). You can tell he really cares about the community….so much that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and after his site facilitated a kids death, he said DNP can’t kill you alone.
Brilliant.
Listen, Listen, Stop And Read This about EF stealing A-Robs work!!!
Originally Posted by number twelve
...bunch of kids.
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