Ep. 98 - Why Nutrition Science is a Battleground

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lennon still isn’t returning our phone calls, but that’s ok because his Sigma Nutrition Radio Co-host Alan Flanagan is! Alan is not only a Ph.D. candidate at Surrey University studying nutrition but was also a former practicing lawyer (and of course most importantly a powerlifter). This means he has not only a solid understanding of nutrition science but also logic and how to construct an argument. This combination makes him not only a potent communicator of nutrition science but also science at a meta-level. He joins us this episode to discuss how heuristics can become falsehoods, how evidence-based “rules” can masquerade as dogma, and why an RCT doesn’t always trump epidemiology. This one is for the nerd’s nerd, so strap in to expand your critical thinking skills (and if not just continue to put your blind faith in Iron CULTure).

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0:00.0	Our haters have been calling this, Eric, the great Irish apology tour.
0:04.5	And this is just a classic case of slander where once again, they misinterpret what we said.
0:11.1	I'm not sure what we said, but I know they're paraphrasing us and not quoting us directly.
0:16.4	That I could be sure of.
0:17.9	One of us, or both of us, probably we doubled down on it.
0:21.3	We were merely questioning the Irish famine, the potato famine, and we were just asking the
0:27.2	very tough questions other people weren't, such as whether or not it happened. And that
0:32.0	caused such a backfire, completely independent of that we have a beautiful, wonderful, just so happens to be
0:38.5	Irish guest here today, Alan Flanagan. Yeah, and some might say that this is actually a two-pronged
0:47.1	PR stunt on our part because he also happens to be the co-host of Sigma Nutrition with none
0:52.9	other than Danny Lennon. Right.
0:54.4	I actually forgot about that.
0:57.4	That apparently, I don't know, maybe it was like at least two decades ago with the previous
1:03.6	co-hosts of Iron Culture, the shock jocks that we let go of.
1:06.8	Yeah, yeah.
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:08.8	So I think that would be a tenuous connection at best to say that this is us still trying to, you know, deal with the repercussions of supposed slander potential truth against Danny Lennon.
1:23.9	So is there any – I mean, if you look at our guests recently I think it's just it's
1:30.3	random we had you know Connor Heffernan on twice yeah we're from Eric I honestly I don't remember
1:38.1	I don't think you should correct he teaches out of Austin I don't see nationality personally.
1:45.3	No.
1:45.8	No.
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