Pseudo-science

[sniper]

I am baffled by the part where he uses the "85% olympic medal winners used altitude training" as evidence that altitude training works.

It stands to reason that a large part of that 85% was using (OV) drugs, which he says nothing about, not even a disclaimer.

Hence --> pseudoscience. Or plain scientific fraud.

If one *doesn't want to* control for OV doping, then one should simply not say anything about the enhancing effects of products/methods XYZ in elite performance.
If one *can't* control for it, one should at the very least make a disclaimer.
One knows there is doping, so not mentioning it is plain deception.

 

[ScienceIsCool]

Re:

I am baffled by the part where he uses the "85% olympic medal winners used altitude training" as evidence that altitude training works.

It stands to reason that a large part of that 85% was using (OV) drugs, which he says nothing about, not even a disclaimer.

Hence --> pseudoscience. Or plain scientific fraud.

If one *doesn't want to* control for OV doping, then one should simply not say anything about the enhancing effects of products/methods XYZ in elite performance.
If one *can't* control for it, one should at the very least make a disclaimer.
One knows there is doping, so not mentioning it is plain deception.

The guy was selling a product, not defending his doctoral thesis...

John Swanson

 

[sniper]

Re: Re:

I am baffled by the part where he uses the "85% olympic medal winners used altitude training" as evidence that altitude training works.

It stands to reason that a large part of that 85% was using (OV) drugs, which he says nothing about, not even a disclaimer.

Hence --> pseudoscience. Or plain scientific fraud.

If one *doesn't want to* control for OV doping, then one should simply not say anything about the enhancing effects of products/methods XYZ in elite performance.
If one *can't* control for it, one should at the very least make a disclaimer.
One knows there is doping, so not mentioning it is plain deception.

The guy was selling a product, not defending his doctoral thesis...

John Swanson

Indeed.
And therefore it's not any better or any worse than the average toothpaste commercial with some clown dressed up as a scientist.
It's pseudoscience.
The only reason it's not called scientific fraud is because we somehow got used to those commercials and there is no decent legislation against them. Let's not let exercise physiology go down the same path.

 

[sniper]

More snakeoil and pseudoscience from former Rabobank and Gebreselassie physio Jeukendrup who's now mixing it up in England combining a university job with selling Gatorade a.o. to team Sky.
Doubt he tells his students about the real ingredients of a pro diet.

A true quack reaping the profits of the fame he acquired by doping athletes.

https://twitter.com/Jeukendrup/status/825375895615631361