Previous: Excessive Quotes in Fitness Articles | Table Of Contents Many fitness bullshitters use uncommon and unusual words where common ones would suffice. How many times have you read an article that looks as if the author had a thesaurus open in front of him while writing it? Well, he probably did. Confusing jargon and […]
Excessive Quotes in Fitness Articles
Previous: Reference Padding in Fitness Articles | Table Of Contents In the last section, I discussed references to research studies and the dishonest practice of reference padding. Another type of reference is a quote. Since much of the online fitness industry consists of cross-promotion, quotes in fitness articles are often a kind of name-dropping. By […]
Reference Padding In Fitness Articles – The BS Vaccine For Fitness
Previous: Self Plagiarism, Salami Slicing, and Publish or Perish | Table of Contents 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 […]
Self Plagiarism, Salami Slicing, and Publish or Perish – The BS Vaccine
Previous: Assertions Based On Single Studies | Table Of Contents 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 […]
Assertions Based on Single Studies – BS Vaccine For Fitness
Previous: What Should I Read to Learn About Fitness? | Table Of Contents 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. […]
What Should I Read To Learn About Fitness?
Previous: Bullshit and Common Sense | Table Of Contents 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 […]