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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