Ep. #807: Can You Really “Do Your Own Research”?
Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews
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This week's episode of muscle for life is a look at popular mime in the evidence based fitness space, as well as the evidence based medicine space. Matthews argues that if you are not doing your own research, but merely consuming content, this activity is about as enlightening as fondling yourself while arguing with chinese bots on twitter. In reality, reviewing scientific studies is one method of research. Many times, there is no way to know whether some one else's research is genuine an accurate. If we take the offending line of thinking to its logical extreme, scientists reading scientific research they did not conduct themselves is dubious. What if biases in des ine data analysis and presentation produced false
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