Previous: Self Plagiarism, Salami Slicing, and Publish or Perish Lack of proper citations in articles about fitness and nutrition is certainly a common problem. But it has an equally problematic opposite: Reference padding. Reference padding is the practice of “padding” the source list of an article with many more citations than should be necessary given the […]
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Self Plagiarism, Salami Slicing, and Publish or Perish – The BS Vaccine
Previous: Assertions Based On Single Studies Famous food researcher Brian Wansink, director of Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab and considered a world-renowned expert on eating, was fairly recently accused of academic misconduct. Many of his papers were retracted by JAMA in one single day. For years, my bullshit meter had been pinging. I even reached […]
Assertions Based on Single Studies – BS Vaccine For Fitness
Previous: What Should I Read to Learn About Fitness? I wonder how many of my readers have recently read a news or magazine article, on the web or elsewhere, explaining the results of one study and making concrete conclusions based on that one study. All of you? I figured as much. A study in Australia […]
What Should I Read To Learn About Fitness?
Previous: Bullshit and Common Sense Do you need more convincing about the value of skepticism? I can understand if you do. Skepticism and even bullshit-detecting can seem so negative. Skeptics are often seen as viewing everything with negativity and as being contrarians. I have certainly been accused of this when I pointed out bullshit to […]
Bullshit and Common Sense – BS Vaccine for Fitness & Nutrition
Previous: Bullshit and Semantics Fitness if full of common sense approaches. What people call common sense produces much of the world’s bullshit. Common sense, itself, is hard to define. It may not actually exist in the way we think it does. Yet, since most people think rational thought and indeed, critical thinking is just applying […]
Bullshit and Semantics – BS Vaccine for Fitness & Nutrition
Previous: Bullshit and Facts We can’t handle the facts if we can’t define our terms. A frequent mode of bullshit in the fitness and wellness industry is shifting definitions and plastic terms. A term that morphs depending on the whim of a speaker is not a very useful one. Here, we are dealing with semantics. […]