Ep. 258 - The Rise of Lifting Antiscience

The trinity is reunited for the first time in 2024, with the Erics joining Omar for what is absolutely a monster episode. We tackle head-on the rise of antiscience in lifting. Currently, attacking exercise or nutrition science in your title or reel is an easy clickbait win for content creators, and you’ll get bonus points via likes, shares, subscriptions, follows and positive comments if you also manage an appeal to what serious lifters “have always known”. Why is this occurring? Is this even a problem? Is it a good thing because those in the exercise and nutrition science ivory towers are so out of touch? If it is a problem, does it lie with science itself, how science communication occurs, or perhaps the expectations put on science? In this episode we discuss all this and more, and it gets spicy! 00:00 Erics… The benefits of living in New Zealand and reading two monster reviews 12:32 Clickbait titles and the anti-exercise science brigade 25:08 The historical perspective 32:26 A monster monster episode: common knowledge of today and where this understanding has come from 45:16 Defining the exercise science field and the origins of sport and exercise science 49:15 The replication crisis 52:06 Science communication and misinformation 1:02:23 Improvements in science: accounting for variables and variation 1:09:21 The gravitation towards short-form content and how science has evolved to address its limitations 1:15:08 The scientist and the consumer: the need for science communication and what needs to be done 1:32:31 The bad actors in science communicators and how scientists apply the research 1:40:54 Takeaways for the listener/consumer  Iron Culture Ep. 256- The Challenge of Science Communication (ft. Layne Norton) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wKS3n_6TgY 1:48:47 It’s a personality thing… and the one hour vacation for Helms

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Iron Culture was started by Eric Helms and Omar Isuf as a means of exploring the world of physical culture and attempting to distill a unified philosophy of lifting and to help listeners find greater meaning from the iron. The lifting community has become fractured over the last ~70 years and this Podcast will attempt to explore the fundamental threads that unite these different tribes. The Podcast focuses on dispensing practical, useful information to the listener, bouncing from history, to philosophy, to contemporary lifting culture issues, to science. This can range from teaching the audience about lifting, programming, nutrition, supplements/PEDs and the history of lifting culture. The format includes casual conversations between the two hosts on a variety of topics, discussions with a panel of experts and interviews with authoritative figures in the lifting community.