Ep. 182 - How to call out B.S. and Pseudoscience

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Myth busting is a favorite past time of the “evidence based fitness community”, and pwning noobs with copious “um actually”s is just part of the job, right? Well, yes and no. While it’s more important than ever to combat mis and disinformation, it’s arguably just as, if not more important, to do so in the right way…which, spoiler alert doesn’t involve pwning said noobs. In fact, while those who use science to “dunk on the bros” do get more follows, props, and recognition, it likely comes from people already within the evidence based community, rather than without. So how does one make a true impact and change hearts and minds, rather than just preach to the choir? Join us to find out!

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-022-01702-2

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0:00.0	Eric.
0:03.2	Mr. Esoff.
0:04.7	What is going on, my man?
0:05.8	How are you doing today?
0:07.7	I'm well.
0:09.0	For those are paying attention, if they look up at the top left corner, we've already
0:12.7	been talking for over an hour.
0:13.8	So it's been a great day.
0:15.1	Yeah, we totally did not start filming this and have to restart it again because we just got way too off topic,
0:22.5	you know?
0:24.4	Actually, we didn't.
0:25.5	For the people who don't know, we're not going to hide the fact that this is not just
0:28.7	two business partners in a business that loses money failing on their first try.
0:34.4	No, we just talked.
0:35.7	We had a good catch-up, and it was nice.
0:38.1	Eric, it was wonderful. I will not admit that we are, in actuality, good friends. I will
0:43.9	strictly view us under a capitalist lens that were business partners. It was a mercantile.
0:49.4	We're in a mutually beneficial, profitable exchange as a current stance. We're not currently enemies in commerce.
0:56.8	Yeah. So not at present moment, are we commercially successful? But we're looking at the long-term
1:02.2	vision. Okay, that's what I want to say. Both investing in each other. Yes. Yes. And I want to say
1:09.2	speaking about investing each other, investing in others,
1:12.2	uplift in the world, making the world a better place to lift. What? I want to play Helms Bingo,
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