Navigating Pseudoscience with Nick Tiller, PhD #207

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Episode overview:

Nick Tiller, PhD is an exercise scientist at Harbor-UCLA. He is also the author of The Skeptics Guide to Sports Science, a columnist for Ultrarunning Magazine and the Skeptical Inquirer.

Episode highlights:

(9:09) Science communication: academics fighting back against media claims, Don't Be Such A Scientist, the importance of science communication, examples

(44:48) Identifying bad science: 28% increase in VO2max is a red flag, sedentary versus trained individuals, training and EPO example, unsubstantiated citations, statistical errors, absolute versus relative VO2max, retracting the article

(1:37:10) Inverse relationship between media presence and credentials: fitness influencers on Instagram, being a full-time influencer and capitalizing on sensationalization, science is incremental and rarely sensational

Additional resources:

You can find all of Nick’s work here, https://www.nbtiller.com/

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