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"Embracing the Ethos of Scientific Scepticism" with Dr Nick Tiller and Prof Stu Phillips

We Do Science - The Sports Nutrition Podcast

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The Ostrich Effect in Kinesiology

The ostrich effect is the idea that we have a lot of poor practice, questionable research practice and misconduct in kinesiology. And it really comes back to something that Stu mentioned earlier about how we have this over emphasis on quantitative research metrics. I've had several papers declined for publication because they didn't find statistically significant outcomes. That's an absurd reason to reject the paper, as people need to know if something doesn't work,.

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