That's a surprisingly in depth newspaper article! Rather than another article about how chocolate is a "superfood", or debunking the "myth" of chocolate, this

That's a surprisingly in depth newspaper article! Rather than another article about how chocolate is a "superfood", or debunking the "myth" of chocolate, this is a look at how our perceptions of chocolate are affected by industry driven science. The closing paragraphs give a flavor of the piece, telling of an social experiment that I'm surprised I hadn't heard about (or at least don't remember): The role of the media in helping chocolate makers exploit our failure to grasp the complexities of nutrition science was laid bare in a 2015 exposé. German television journalists set up a three-week “study” in which they asked one group of volunteers to follow a low-carb diet, another to do the same but add a daily chocolate bar, a third to make no change to their diet. Both low-carb groups lost an average of 5lb, but the chocolate group lost weight faster. By measuring 18 different things in a small number of people, the spoofers made it likely they would find “statistically significant” but fake benefits of eating chocolate. The “peer-reviewed” International Archives of Internal Medicine agreed to publish a hastily written paper within 24 hours of receiving it – for a fee of €600. John Bohannon, a Harvard University biologist and science journalist in on the hoax, put together a press release. Within days stories had been published in more than 20 countries. The Mail Online, Daily Express, Daily Star and Bild were among those that fell for it. More about how that paper came to be here: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the_history_behind_the_chocolate_hoax.php https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the_history_behind_the_chocolat...