Hello, just sharing my worst “aHa!” moment of 2015 :)

“I am Johannes Bohannon, Ph.D. Well, actually my name is John, and I’m a journalist. I do have a Ph.D., but it’s in the molecular biology of bacteria, not humans. The Institute of Diet and Health? That’s nothing more than a website.

“Other than those fibs, the study was 100 percent authentic. My colleagues and I recruited actual human subjects in Germany. … It was, in fact, a fairly typical study for the field of diet research. Which is to say: It was terrible science. The results are meaningless, and the health claims that the media blasted out to millions of people around the world are utterly unfounded.

“Here’s how we did it. …”

Read more…

http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800