Chocolate, weight loss, bad studies and bad journalism

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On Friday a documentary aired on German and French television channel Arte about dietary and weight loss studies . The authors of the documentary had done an experiment where they created a fake study claiming that eating dark chocolate can help with weight loss. The study was done in cooperation with science journalist John Bohannon, who wrote about the experiment on io9.com . They did a real…

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