Barefoot running and its interpretation by the media

There has been a lot of recent attention given by the media to barefoot running. Recent publications by Kerrigan et al and Liebermann et al have been widely promoted in the news media and on running barefoot websites. Both studies have been badly interpreted and misrepresented by the media and barefoot running websites as showing something that they did not show. Liebermann even went to the extraordinary step of posting a disclaimer on his website about how his research was being used! See

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