If you or anybody you know is or has been tempted to take the testosterone gels, patches and other products that are now aggressively marketed on TV and elsewhere to men (and to their doctors), this is a mustread piece."In the ageold tradition of snake oil peddlers and traveling medicine shows, [testosterone replacement therapy] is but the latest elixir from the fountain of youth," Andriote writes. "Offering a heady brew of hope and hype distilled at the drawing boards of advertising agencies, tubes of testosterone are the latest wares for the unwary."There is, as Andriote explains, a medical condition characterized by low testosterone known as hypogonadism or hypotestosteronemia but it affects a very small number of men. Only about 0.1 percent of men in their 40s would meet the diagnostic criteria for this condition a number that climbs to just 5.1 percent among men in their 70s.'Scientifically unproven'But the vast majority of older men who are taking testo