I agree with you that good science is done outside of academia. But a scientific paper does not open with an advertisement for a commercial enterprise, as this particular one does. There may be interesting and worthwhile information in this publication, but it doesn't meet the widely-agreed-upon criteria of a scientific publication. In the abstract, the authors claim no conflict of interest. If there was any functioning peer review, the advertising language in the introduction would not have made it to publication. The authors do have a very serious conflict of interest: they are overtly advertising the "Human Performance Institute, Division of Wellness and Prevention, Inc., in Orlando, FL" in florid prose (e.g., "From our work with elite performers, we have learned that managing energy is the key to sustaining high performance."). This is a trade publication, and that is fine. But to call such a thing science dilutes the meaning of the word.

Oh boo hoo. Venezuela sits on a mountain of petro-dollars (more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia). When not shutting down opposition TV stations, jailing political enemies, and funding FARC narco-terrorists, they've had time to spend $4.4 billion on a military shopping spree of Russian armaments. Sure, expenses run high when you have cronyism and mismanagement at every level of government, but surely the people deserve toilet paper!

I wonder if a prankster ever got hold of some of this stuff. It probably would end in an arrest. That would make an interesting Neatorama post, if it happened

These massive payments are grotesque, but this state of affairs reflects the tastes and interests of the population. College sports are big business, and university administrators must believe they are making an investment with such payments. Legislators could mandate salary caps for schools receiving government funding, but imagine the outcry.