Ep. 267 - Addressing Data Fraud in Nutrition Science

The holy trinity is back and holy smokes do we have a Holy Ghost of an episode! First, to kick things off the crew discusses the recent “March madness” of powerlifting that just finished: IPF European Champs, the UK Arnold, and Powerlifting America Nationals. Some absolutely stunning performances occurred all over the world in powerlifting and it seems the rising tide of talent has no end. Then we get into the meat - or should I say the bottomless soup - of the episode. While fraud in research is exceedingly rare, it does happen, and unfortunately, more common issues such as p-hacking are a far more prevalent issue. What is to be done in situations like this? One tool, as the Erics discuss, is replication.

00:00 An intro in unison (as always) and Trexler the bouncer

MASS Research Review https://massresearchreview.com/

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10:20 Introducing more Trex lore

14:42 Powerlifting America Nationals, Arnold UK, and IPF European Champs recap

34:45 Trexler yawn-gate rears its head again and some numbers behind tzhe sport

54:37 Trexler’s return and getting into the science of replication 

1:10:08 The bottomless soup bowl

Wansink 2005 Bottomless bowls: why visual cues of portion size may influence intake https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15761167/

Lopez 2024 Visual cues and food intake: A preregistered replication of Wansink et al. (2005) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37917442/

Vigotsky 2022 Improbable data patterns in the work of Barbalho et al.  https://osf.io/preprints/sportrxiv/sg3wm 

George 2015 Data fraud in clinical trials https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25729561/

1:19:41 What is a successful replication?

1:29:10 Closing out with a brief history of violence