cattypist

You could modernize an old idea that used to work pretty well for some people:

Cue the Village People singing: "Y.M.C.A...." :-)

Nowadays we live in a less Christian society that's also less accepting of even nominal gender segregation, but I think the old YMCAs and YWCAs still provide some evidence in favor of your idea.

So I hope to see the Young People's Rational Associations moving into small towns. :-)

Maybe some YMRAs can even cooperate with other educational and religious organizations that favor healthy exercise and the study of logic. :-)

Researchers such as John Ioannidis have been making an increasingly good case in the last few years that a substantial proportion of published research in areas such as the social sciences and medicine may be wrong or misleading, though.

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/

It's a crisis worth becoming aware of and thinking about the implications of.

The story also says "Zigang has a tube that lowers air pressure in the running environment to 10 times less than normal." (This probably makes little sense to someone who's good at physics of gases--reducing by 100% or 1x is the lowest you can go with that.)

In general, I guess this story has about the level of quality that one should expect of a science & engineering story sourced from the _Daily Mail_.