His TED talk makes me want to vomit.

His TED talk makes me want to vomit.

I can't even go back and watch that again.  Made me retch, too.

 

I think it's because he holds a contrarian opinion to commonly accepted wisdom.   It makes a good sound bite, and he will talk to the press promptly and enable them to hit deadlines--which is pretty much all some reporters care about (according to a doc media training session I was at last week).

He's an animal like Tim Noakes.  Crappy scientist, scoffed at by real scientists in their own field (I've read editorials about Noakes' work from other physiologists, scathing would be kind) but they have found a niche for themselves by releasing "data" which panders to the media, taking every interview, and making themselves look important by just being visible.

In today's internet and social media, being visible is more important than being right.

I have a google news alert set for "running/jogging" and  the first page has been nothing but "running is bad" for the last week.

Kind of surprised how many picked up the story and just passed it along.

I thought this was good although it just confirms what you guys have said here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/upshot/no-more-running-probably-isnt-bad-for-you.html?abt=0002&abg=0

I was here to mention the JACC editorial, which I thought was well done, but the Fortune article covers most of it.  Only to add that the authors refer to large observational data sets which do not lead to the same conclusion as the Danish data.

I think we need to be open to the possibility that there is a point where good becomes enough becomes too much.

But personally, I'm much more concerned about getting hit by a pickup on a bucolic country lane on a sunny day.

 

I think most of us are, but not at such a ridiculously low level, and not by someone so clearly pushing an agenda and using really, really crappy "data".

That's an important point.

If we want to think scientifically about this topic, I think it's important that we keep an open mind as to the possibility that "too much of a good thing" when it comes to running might exist.

For me, the fairest statement is to say: "I don't know" when considering this question.  That doesn't mean I ain't going to do my mileage, but I'll try to keep an open mind about these things until some good evidence gets published.

Add to your nausea

http://www.runnersworld.com/health/how-to-interpret-the-latest-excessive-running-news-reports?icid=OBtrafficRW_TBD_AR1

T Nation website is in the article