It looks very plausible that stretching before you exercise doesn’t do much for you. Multiple older surveys suggested this.

Annoyingly, the studies linked in the previous paragraph are 2 decades old, and somehow I can’t find a large, well controlled, trial.

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      Unfortunately this kind of science really sucks because there are just so many variables to account for, and it’s impossible to do a blind study.

      This is a topic where there’s basically guaranteed to be conflicting results in different trials.

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        For sure. That’s kind of my point. Scientists being careful with their language and not making strong claims doesn’t indicate that they are wrong.