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