Doug McGuff, MD, fitness guru and author of the exercise book with the highest citation-to-page ratio of any I’ve seen.
I had a curious skim through this guy’s blog. Soon happened upon this interview with Joe Mercola. I get that people sometimes do questionable things they wouldn’t otherwise do for publicity, but this is pretty out there. For those unfamiliar with the good Dr Mercola, he’s second only to Mehmet Oz in damage done to public understanding of the scientific basis of medicine. That’s no flaw in McGuff’s own work, but I’m a little dubious of a physician who’s willing to associate with antivaxxers in a public professional context, from an ethical standpoint if nothing else. He may have good reasons for this, but it does trigger my quack-heuristic.
Yeah, this was disappointing to me as well. My feeling is that he’s an “any publicity is good publicity” type, which could be seen as seedy (he has a book/classes to sell) or safe (he thinks he knows how to save a ton of time on exercising and prevent a lot of silly injuries, he wants as many people as possible to stay healthy). Having read a lot of his stuff and watched some of his talks, my beliefs tend towards the second, but it’s unclear.
I had a curious skim through this guy’s blog. Soon happened upon this interview with Joe Mercola. I get that people sometimes do questionable things they wouldn’t otherwise do for publicity, but this is pretty out there. For those unfamiliar with the good Dr Mercola, he’s second only to Mehmet Oz in damage done to public understanding of the scientific basis of medicine. That’s no flaw in McGuff’s own work, but I’m a little dubious of a physician who’s willing to associate with antivaxxers in a public professional context, from an ethical standpoint if nothing else. He may have good reasons for this, but it does trigger my quack-heuristic.
Yeah, this was disappointing to me as well. My feeling is that he’s an “any publicity is good publicity” type, which could be seen as seedy (he has a book/classes to sell) or safe (he thinks he knows how to save a ton of time on exercising and prevent a lot of silly injuries, he wants as many people as possible to stay healthy). Having read a lot of his stuff and watched some of his talks, my beliefs tend towards the second, but it’s unclear.