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OMG ..

When Custom Orthotics Do More Harm Than Good

hat tip: Griff

1. He has no evidence to support his claims (if you are going to make such claims, then the onus is on you to come up with the evidence)
2. The actual evidence contradicts the claims (which he obviously has not even read!; yet still writes on the topic! - see (4) below)
3. He just makes stuff up and wishes it was true (wishful thinking fallacy)
4. Dunning-Krugar personified!
5. The only positive thing about the article is that it would make a good teaching resource to teach logical fallacies -- there is so many of them.

It was because of this kind of make up pseudoscientific dribble that I started my blog .... but now I finding there are just too many loons out there to keep taking down.

 

But, Craig, I am sure if he reads what you just wrote that he will not even understand it and just dismiss it as you have a vested interest in foot orthotics.

 

The shill gambit! ... another logical fallacy; ie they can't address the issue so play the BigOrthotics shill gambit ... that will just prove me right.

Who cares if I have a vested interest in foot orthotics or not? What has that got to do with it?; what he is claiming is contradicted by the actual scientific evidence --> that is what matters and needs to be addressed.

 

Here is Ian's tweet on the blog post:
https://twitter.com/Sports_Pod

 

Craig, there are loons on probably every subject out there. Why devote any time
to acknowledge them, to feed energy into their existence, to put them on the map? These guys writing these controversial ill informed blogs
are simply trying to get a better position on the Google search engine and bring in more clients. IMO, they are best to be ignored.

Steven

 

Simply because patients read it.
There are too many anecdotes of people declining efficacious and effective treatments that have well documented science behind them because of something they read online.
I know we only talking about foot orthotics here, but there are too many wider examples in people declining potentially life saving treatments because of woo and pseudoscience (eg Steve Jobs could possibly still be alive today if it was not for woo and pseudoscience).
Who recalls those reports of the need for reconstructive foot surgery in runners with PTTD because they followed the obviously wrong advice at the peak of the barefoot fad? (they will probably never run again).

I rant about and go after woo and pseudoscience wherever it may be and whatever its about (I been banging on about FoodBabe elsewhere this AM)