My latest at PJ Media: The mainstream media

[Mark Rippetoe]

Mainstream Media Gets Health Studies Wrong | PJ Lifestyle

[Tzal]

Modern Western culture is remarkably far-removed from the realities of human physical existence.

Preach.

[Mark Rippetoe]

You disagree?

[JJdd]

Just a suggestion, but it would be cool if you added these journal articles to the 'articles' section of the website so they would all be grouped together/ easier to find.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Just a suggestion, but it would be cool if you added these journal articles to the 'articles' section of the website so they would all be grouped together/ easier to find.

This is not a "journal article." It's an essay on another website.

Rip's articles, audio and video interviews for other websites

[Christopher Button]

This might just be your best-written article yet, Rip.

[Dave Longley]

This is superb. Thanks for writing it.

[Claymore]

I would infer from much of what I read that the mainstream media is more concerned with headline that generating clicks than they are with maintaining scientific/academic/journalistic honesty.

[Tzal]

You disagree?

No.

[Mark E. Hurling]

Perhaps someday we’ll have developed to the point where a 400-pound deadlift is a hiring criterion for any healthy young male in every line of work.

I just completed my annual safety training a couple of days ago at the aerospace company I work for. Part of this year's indoctrination states that there is a limit of 35 pounds for anything you have to carry or pick up. Which is further laughable because there are tasks that require the application of 200 foot/lbs. of torque to be applied with unpowered hand tools to some fasteners.

The frosting on the cake for me is the photo I have on my desk of a deadlift of 425 pounds I managed in the gym a couple of years ago at age 62. Maybe I should call the NBA and offer my services in some capacity or other.