{"id":394,"date":"2011-05-04T00:51:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T00:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2015-09-22T06:35:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T06:35:06","slug":"oh-the-absurdity-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/oh-the-absurdity-of-it\/394\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the absurdity of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/crazy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-341\" title=\"crazy\" src=\"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/crazy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to type this next bit really slow:<\/p>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/hook-line-and-sinker\/26\/\">lie from two barefoot running websites<\/a>. Why do they do it for?<\/p>\n<p>\n<script type='text\/javascript'><!--\/\/<![CDATA[\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/flow.aquaplatform.com\/ajs.php':'http:\/\/flow.aquaplatform.com\/ajs.php');\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\n   if (!document.MAX_used) document.MAX_used = ',';\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\n   document.write (\"?zoneid=248\");\n   document.write ('&amp;cb=' + m3_r);\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&amp;exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\n   document.write (\"&amp;loc=\" + escape(window.location));\n   if (document.referrer) document.write (\"&amp;referer=\" + escape(document.referrer));\n   if (document.context) document.write (\"&context=\" + escape(document.context));\n   if (document.mmm_fo) document.write (\"&amp;mmm_fo=1\");\n   document.write (\"'><\\\/scr\"+\"ipt>\");\n\/\/]]>--><\/script><noscript><a href='http:\/\/flow.aquaplatform.com\/ck.php?n=09b57c&amp;cb=8e3c736f828a376eff53c87f87708a1c' target='_blank'><img src='http:\/\/flow.aquaplatform.com\/avw.php?zoneid=248&amp;cb=8e3c736f828a376eff53c87f87708a1c&amp;n=09b57c' border='0' alt='' \/><\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningbarefootisbad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}