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Started by Connor Mcilhinney
The debate centers on whether the presence of significant errors and basic conclusions in sports science PhD theses undermines the authority and societal value of the doctoral credential. Participants discuss whether lackluster thesis grading and a decline in scientific rigor have led to the publication of substandard research, potentially devaluing the degree for all fields.
It's come to light recently that Dr. Mike, uh who's like kind of a a fitness influencer um for bodybuilding, uh he goes by Dr. Mike on the internet. 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. Um this thing kind of blowing up leaves people to I think mentally just put a little bit less value into PhDs, um,…