{"id":14254,"date":"2020-10-27T12:14:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/?p=14254"},"modified":"2020-11-02T10:58:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T10:58:37","slug":"science-or-pseudoscience-of-physical-activity-and-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/science-or-pseudoscience-of-physical-activity-and-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Science or Pseudoscience of Physical Activity and Sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The prevalence of pseudo-scientific ideas and \u201cneuromyths\u201d among coaches, coupled with the need to improve the contents of their education programmes, has recently been highlighted in the scientific literature. In this opinion paper, we identify and discuss some common beliefs, prejudices and tacit assumptions in the field of sport sciences that can favour the presence of pseudoscience in education and professional practice, such as: (a) sport is too complex a phenomenon to be studied scientifically, (b) sport needs applied science, (c) in sport, practice and experience are more important than theory; (d) all theories are partly true and equally acceptable; and (e) there are \u201chard sciences\u201d (biological) and \u201csoft sciences\u201d (social). In relation to the arguments outlined, several intervention recommendations are shared for the institutions and organisms in charge of training sport science professionals.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"tags\"> <p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> <span>Basic Science<\/span>, <span>Beliefs<\/span>, <span>Education<\/span>, <span>Pseudoscience<\/span>, <span>Scientific Theory<\/span><\/p> <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract The prevalence of pseudo-scientific ideas and \u201cneuromyths\u201d among coaches, coupled with the need to improve the contents of their education programmes, has recently been highlighted in the scientific literature. In this opinion paper, we identify and discuss some common beliefs, prejudices and tacit assumptions in the field of sport sciences that can favour the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8516],"tags":[8439,8442,6525,8441,8440],"author_meta":{"display_name":"doc_inefc","author_link":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/author\/doc_inefc\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/category\/scientific-replicas-and-letters\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Scientific Replicas and Letters<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Scientific Replicas and Letters<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/category\/scientific-replicas-and-letters\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Basic Science<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/category\/scientific-replicas-and-letters\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Beliefs<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/category\/scientific-replicas-and-letters\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Education<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/category\/scientific-replicas-and-letters\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Pseudoscience<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/category\/scientific-replicas-and-letters\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Scientific Theory<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Basic Science<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Beliefs<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Education<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Pseudoscience<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Scientific Theory<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 27 October 2020","modified":"Updated on 2 November 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 27 October 2020 12:14","modified":"Updated on 2 November 2020 10:58"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=14254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17292,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions\/17292\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=14254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=14254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=14254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}