Thursday

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Workout of the Day

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5 rounds of:

1 minute of dumbbell deadlifts
1 minute of push-ups

Do not rest between rounds.

Post total reps completed for each exercise and weight used for the deadlift to comments.
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Ancel Keys' Cholesterol Con, Part 1

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When Ancel Keys received funding to evaluate his diet-heart and lipid hypotheses in the late 1960s, he was dismayed when his study comprehensively disproved his theory about dietary cholesterol's role in heart disease. Instead of leveling “ruthless scepticism toward [his] own work,” as Karl Popper claims a scientist must, Keys and his colleagues buried the data. Here, Prof. Timothy Noakes tells the story of how Keys blurred the line between belief and proof, transforming the landscape of scientific research for decades to come.

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