Connor Mcilhinney on Sport Science has a major PHD Problem
Connor Mcilhinney
Sport Science has a major PHD Problem
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- 0:00 It's come to light recently that Dr.
- 0:03 Mike, uh who's like kind of a a fitness influencer um for bodybuilding, uh he goes by Dr.
- 0:09 Mike on the internet.
- 0:10 His PhD, um, people looked into it and it's riddled with errors, it's riddled with uh wrong analysis, it's riddled with conclusions that are extremely evident and well known, um, which kind of undermines the whole point of what a PhD is and what gives the weight when people can walk into a room and say, I have a PhD in this subject.
- 0:31 Um this thing kind of blowing up leaves people to I think mentally just put a little bit less value into PhDs, um, which is not something as a society that we should be doing.
- 0:44 We should be recognizing people who are experts in their field.
- 0:48 And I I really think this is an issue with sports science in itself.
- 0:52 Um where I think there's a lot of lackluster uh thesis graders and the research going in to health science nowadays is a lot less scientific.
- 1:07 Um and a lot of the research that's being published is just very basic.
- 1:11 Uh I so I think I think the graders for PhDs need to step up and I think I think this is a great thing that people are looking into PhD dissertations um and researching them.