Genetic tests for athletic ability: Science or snake oil?

Genetic tests for athletic ability: science or snake oil?

Marketing genetic tests: empowerment or snake oil?

Genetic tests are currently being offered to the general public with little oversight and regulation as to which tests are allowed to be sold clinically and little control over the marketing and promotion of sales and use. This article provides discussion and data to indicate that the general public holds high opinions of genetic testing and that current media outlets for public education on ge...

Economics: Science, Craft, or Snake Oil? Institute for Advanced Study

I 1935, Albert Einstein and collaborators wrote two papers at the Institute for Advanced Study. One was on quantum mechanics [1] and the other was on black holes [2]. The paper on quantum mechanics is very famous and influential. It pointed out a feature of quantum mechanics that deeply troubled Einstein. The paper on black holes pointed out an interesting aspect of a black hole solution with n...

Balance ability and athletic performance.

The relationship between balance ability and sport injury risk has been established in many cases, but the relationship between balance ability and athletic performance is less clear. This review compares the balance ability of athletes from different sports, determines if there is a difference in balance ability of athletes at different levels of competition within the same sport, determines t...

Test Automation Snake Oil

Case #5: A program consisting of many hundreds of nearly independent functions is put into service with only rudimentary testing. Just prior to delivery, a large proportion of the functions are deactivated as part of debugging. Almost a year passes before anyone notices that those functions are missing. These are vignettes from my own experience, but I bet they sound familiar. It’s a common com...