CrossFit’s educational review of the rudiments of modern science continues and can now be followed here: @CrossFitSciEdu.
As previously noted, this instruction is useful to anyone seeking to engage thoughtfully with the products of scientific inquiry and practice. These products and the host of misconceptions and misinterpretations that surround them are inescapable dimensions of human experience. A solid foundation in science education is essential for the layperson as well as the scientist in order to reasonably navigate the world in which we live, interpreting the data and information each of us take in every day.
CrossFit Science Education was created to meet a clear need for this type of rudimentary education by providing the terminology and tools necessary for thoughtful, skeptical engagement with science (both as it is and as it is frequently misconstrued).
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Richard,
CrossFit is a company based on movement and nutrition. Specifically, functional movement and "proper nutrition". We are not a research entity, academic affiliated (thank god) or beholden to any entity to produce results. We are a bunch of people (a community) who have firm beliefs based on results. That being said, we are surely outspoken about those who fly the academic flag and spout results that don't/can't conform to the rigors of scientific scrutiny. Especially if it is an attack and/or fabricatied data reflectly badly on us. It's really that simple.
It’s a great stance and direction. I buy it! I whole heartedly believe that it is the most effective solution for the health crisis we are facing. However, are the right people (the folks that need it) getting this information? It just seems like more and more people are turning CrossFit off, including affiliates and coaches. I feel like I’m constantly swimming upstream to share the CrossFit message.
Exciting News!
Interesting stuff. Any plans to do studies on the effectiveness of Crossfit with open and transparent scientific method and data?
I think the NSCA is going to do another "study" with "transparent scientific method and data".
Seriously, though, why has Crossfit put out so much rhetoric about doing good science yet been totally opaque or litigious about research around its own methodology? The articles about corruption in pharmaceutical and junk food lobbyists are interesting and infuriating, but to get good science, you actually have to do good science, not just attack bad science.
Very excited about the direction CrossFit is moving in.
@CrossFitSciEdu
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