What is "good science?" -- I've never seen it defined more thoroughly than this:
"This is how functioning science works. Outstanding questions are identified or hypothesis proposed; experimental tests are than established either to answer the questions or to refute the hypotheses, regardless of how obviously true they might appear to be. If assertions are made without the empirical evidence to defend them, they are vigorously rebuked. In science, as Merton noted, progress is made only by first establishing whether one's predecessors have erred or 'have stopped befor tracking down the implications of their results or have passed over in their work what is there to be seen by the fresh ey of another.' Each new claim to knowledge, therefore, has to be picked apart and appraised. Its shortcomings have to be established unequivocally before we can know what questions remain to be asked, and so what answers to seek -- what we know is really so and what we don't. "This unending exchange of critical judgment," Merton wrote, "of praise and punishment, is developed in science to a degreee that makes the monitoring of children's behavior by their parents seem little more than child's play."
(from Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories, pp. 450-51)
we live in a world that, in it's rush to find a cure, to help the masses, we've often forgone the required rigorous guidelines of thorough, indesputible evidence.
anecdotal evidence, corroborated by years of research that seems to have been "lost" shows that the most effective means to health and fat loss are contradictory to what's been preached to us for YEARS.
With respect to decisions concerning your health and well-being, it comes time for you to make a change for your health, are you going to have the strength to go against the grain, and make the decisions that you need for you? To not accept the ideas out there as gospel and figure out what's real and what works best for you.
This is how functioning science works. p. 450
practical considerations..... p.451
sometimes the danger in wanting to help people so badly is that we, in our rush to help, take any answer that's out there and run with it.... Eager for that answer - no matter how unproven it is - to be the solution that applies to and helps all who may benefit.
And this can lead to conflicting advice, confusion, and, well, a world that's fatter and sicker than it's ever been, DESPITE, all the technology we've developed and the time we've dedicated to study.....
Pursuing your health may very well require you to go againt the grain of much of what you've heard from the experts..... Because the experts were peddling erroneous information.....
(post-quote)
Based on research results that have been replicated in the past (but seemingly "lost" based on the nutrition doctrine that's been preached heavily since the 70s) achieving true health and fitness will likely require you to create habits that go against the grain.
What is "good science?" -- I've never seen it defined more thoroughly than this:
"This is how functioning science works. Outstanding questions are identified or hypothesis proposed; experimental tests are than established either to answer the questions or to refute the hypotheses, regardless of how obviously true they might appear to be. If assertions are made without the empirical evidence to defend them, they are vigorously rebuked. In science, as Merton noted, progress is made only by first establishing whether one's predecessors have erred or 'have stopped befor tracking down the implications of their results or have passed over in their work what is there to be seen by the fresh ey of another.' Each new claim to knowledge, therefore, has to be picked apart and appraised. Its shortcomings have to be established unequivocally before we can know what questions remain to be asked, and so what answers to seek -- what we know is really so and what we don't. "This unending exchange of critical judgment," Merton wrote, "of praise and punishment, is developed in science to a degreee that makes the monitoring of children's behavior by their parents seem little more than child's play."
(from Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories, pp. 450-51)
we live in a world that, in it's rush to find a cure, to help the masses, we've often forgone the required rigorous guidelines of thorough, indesputible evidence.
anecdotal evidence, corroborated by years of research that seems to have been "lost" shows that the most effective means to health and fat loss are contradictory to what's been preached to us for YEARS.
With respect to decisions concerning your health and well-being, it comes time for you to make a change for your health, are you going to have the strength to go against the grain, and make the decisions that you need for you? To not accept the ideas out there as gospel and figure out what's real and what works best for you.
This is how functioning science works. p. 450
practical considerations..... p.451
sometimes the danger in wanting to help people so badly is that we, in our rush to help, take any answer that's out there and run with it.... Eager for that answer - no matter how unproven it is - to be the solution that applies to and helps all who may benefit.
And this can lead to conflicting advice, confusion, and, well, a world that's fatter and sicker than it's ever been, DESPITE, all the technology we've developed and the time we've dedicated to study.....
Pursuing your health may very well require you to go againt the grain of much of what you've heard from the experts..... Because the experts were peddling erroneous information.....
(post-quote)
Based on research results that have been replicated in the past (but seemingly "lost" based on the nutrition doctrine that's been preached heavily since the 70s) achieving true health and fitness will likely require you to create habits that go against the grain.