Daily Archives: 18 February 2011

“Feasibility” as a euphemism for “this science is badly done” — a “study” of the feasibility of using portable pedal bikes to improve fitness among sedentary workers, while they work 0

Publish anything, no matter how badly done? My last blog post spoke harshly about three badly designed, mostly irrelevant psychology experiments. Here’s an even worse one from “sports medicine.”  The study was intended to see whether using portable pedal machines would reduce (mostly overweight) desk workers’ sedentary ways.  Done correctly, that is obviously a reasonable [...]