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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 Evolution of Sport Science

A lot of sport science is born out of things that people did because they worked for somebody else. I was trained as a biochemist, so I think of things in biochemical detail before I think of the physiology. So more than anything, it's been my understanding of biochemistry or biology that has puzzled me when I first saw some of these dogmatic beliefs in sport science. But there's a part of me that does enjoy pushing back against a long held belief, particularly when we think the science says that it's not exactly how it should be.

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