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Comment by mf_tomb

20 hours ago

This is par for the course with exercise science. It's mostly fake. No blinding, small sample sizes, researchers with agenda, low duration, low funding etc. The good news is that doing almost anything works.

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throwaway173738  15 hours ago

Doing almost anything works better than doing nothing.

f33d5173  6 hours ago

How would you blind it? This isn't pharmacy where you can hand out sugar pills.

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