The global health and wellness industry is worth an estimated USD $4 trillion. Marketing regulations are disturbingly lax, and many products are sold on baseless claims, pseudoscience, and questionable evidence of safety and efficacy.

Profits derived from health club memberships, diets, supplements, alternative “therapies,” and thousands of other products and services. The industry has expanded rapidly, far outstripping the capacity of federal bodies to regulate the market.

In this talk, Dr. Nick Tiller reframes the health and wellness industry through the critical lens of scientific skepticism, covering health biases, decision making, social media, and the many legitimate medical practices that have been misappropriated for the commercial world.

Nick Tiller, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow in exercise physiology at Harbor-UCLA and author of The Skeptic’s Guide to Sports Science which was named one of Book Authority’s “Best Sports Science Books of All Time.” He is associate editor of the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism and a leading authority on the physiology of ultra-endurance exercise. For over a decade, Tiller has been studying the commercial health and wellness industry through the critical lens of scientific skepticism, with his work featured in The Washington Post, Inside Science, and BBC News, among others. In his monthly column for Skeptical Inquirer magazine, Tiller explores the intersection of critical thinking and health and wellness, and scrutinizes the fitness trends that are sold on extraordinary claims and unextraordinary evidence. Born in London, England, Nick resides in Los Angeles, CA, where he can usually be found running in the Santa Monica Mountains.

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This talk took place at the CSICon 2022 in Las Vegas on October 21, 2022

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