Brains vs. Brawn

Ah, eBay — where you can buy textbooks, children's books, nonfiction books, used books, new books, books about steroids and, apparently, books containing steroids. In 2005, a team of investigative journalists at MSNBC spent three months uncovering dozens of listings for literature about performance-enhancing drugs that actually contained said drugs. "Until you brought this to our attention, it wasn't getting as close a look as it should have," Rob Chestnut, an eBay vice president and a former federal prosecutor, told MSNBC when the company learned about the scam. "That's our bad."

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