Oh, the absurdity of it

by admin on May 4, 2011

How often have you seen claims that barefoot activity improves the immune system? I have seen some recent claims from barefooters that there is increasing amounts of evidence that going barefoot has immune system benefits.

I am going to type this next bit really slow:

There is not one piece of evidence that even comes remotely close to showing that there are any benefits of going barefoot for the immune system.

Could those making the claims, please direct me to the research that you think is showing this. If you are going to make such claims, then the burden of proof is on you to back them up.

I wish someone could explain to me the motivation to lie about this. Why do they make up this stuff for? No one has yet offered up an explanation for this lie from two barefoot running websites. Why do they do it for?


Barefooter Giving Potentially Fatal Advice

by admin on April 30, 2011

This was recently brought to my attention.

Those with the vascular and neuropathic complications of diabetes are at a significant risk of amputations with death as a fatal complication of that. They need to take special care to avoid any trauma to the lower limb. For this reason all the guidelines from all the national organizations around the world are that these people should be wearing shoes around the home to prevent the kid of trauma that leads to these potentially fatal complications.

Imagine the outrage when a barefoot fanatic was advising those with diabetes to go without footwear when a question was asked at Yahoo Answers about this. Fortunately the absolute fool that advised that was told in no uncertain terms how dangerous the advice was.

Luckily they did withdraw the advice when their idiocy was pointed out to them. What is does show is how blindly they promoted their barefoot agenda without did not stop to think about the consequences. This was no doubt dangerous. Kudos to those who responded to this irresponsibility at Yahoo Answers. Also what was telling was the deafening silence from the barefoot community in coming forward to condemn the potentially fatal advice being given.


Why are barefoot runners getting so many injuries?

September 8, 2010

I am going to borrow a statement that I came across on another site, “The Evangelists from the Church of Barefoot Running”. The Evangelists make some very strong statements that one of the main advantages of barefoot running is that you get less injuries (which has no evidence to support that) and that running shoes [...]

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Definitive Evidence that Barefoot Running Really Does Make You Blind

August 11, 2010

No sooner than I wrote about the possibility of barefoot running making people blind, Dr Nirenberg has come back with another post about  Barefoot Running With Eyes Wide Open which clearly proves beyond doubt that barefoot running does indeed make you blind.
He claims: 
The weight of the scientific evidence which supports barefoot running has reached such an [...]

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Does Running Barefoot Make You Blind?

August 10, 2010

I am really starting to wonder about this. It’s is the only explanation I can come up with to explain what I am seeing. First, we had all the barefoot websites claiming that running shoes cause osteoarthritis based on a study that was not even about osteoarthritis. Then we had them all claiming that barefoot [...]

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Some questions for the barefoot running community

June 18, 2010

Here are some rhetorical questions for the barefoot running community in general to consider:
Why do you try to dismiss what I write about because there are advertisements on this site for running shoes? Are you also dismissing what is written on barefoot running websites because they have advertisements for barefoot running shoes, barefoot running books [...]

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Why I have comments turned off

June 1, 2010

I have the comments turned off on this blog for a number of reasons. Mainly because I have no desire or energy to engage in discussion with the barefoot running community. They have already proved how irrational and nonsensical they are in previous discussions; how they totally misrepresent and misquote research; and how they are [...]

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“All the proof you need”

May 20, 2010

I got an interesting email from someone who I assume is a barefoot runner. The email simply said “this is all the proof you need” and it included a link to this.
This link is a reproduction of the press release from the Kerrigan et al study, which I described as:
This will have to go down [...]

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Stress Fractures in the Vibram FiveFinger’s ‘Barefoot’ Shoe

May 6, 2010

I was being somewhat facetious in my 2+2=5 logic to show that barefoot runners get more stress fractures. As the barefoot running community tend to apply that logic to so much they claim, my point was why can’t I? Now we have more and more reports surfacing of metatarsal stress fractures occurring in the Vibram Five [...]

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The Advertising on this Site

May 2, 2010

This is a good one. I get a lot of emails (hate mail) and they all have one thing in common: They all prove what I am saying is right! None of them actually address the issues I raise and just take pot shots at me and do things such as attack my anonymity and [...]

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