School Lunches, P-Hacking and the Original "Pizzagate"

This week we're diving into one of the biggest-ever scandals in nutrition research. For nearly two decades, Brian Wansink's Food and Brand Lab told Americans that lower weights, healthier workplaces and better school lunches were just a few small tweaks away. Then, in 2015, he wrote a blog post and it all came crashing down. 

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• A Credibility Crisis in Food Science
• Statistical heartburn: An attempt to digest four pizza publications from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab
• Brian Wansink: Data Masseur, Media Villain, Emblem of a Thornier Problem
• The Wansink Dossier: An Overview
• More Evidence That Nutrition Studies Don’t Always Add Up
• Here’s How Cornell Scientist Brian Wansink Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies About How We Eat
• False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant
• Death of a Veggie Salesman
• The Strange, Uplifting Tale of “Joy of Cooking” Versus the Food Scientist
• Moms, “Food Fears” and the Power of the Internet
• The science behind Smarter Lunchrooms
• You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition
• Energy balance measurement: when something is not better than nothing
• Scientific method: Statistical errors
• Effect of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act on the Nutritional Quality of Meals Selected by Students and School Lunch Participation Rates
• 9.67 Degrees of Deception

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