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the choclate diet

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3 You're right, academic peer review is a good check for handling these things, but I disagree that journalists shouldn't need to do their own verification. The specific case in this article was pretty egregious. The "lead clinician" in the study was actually a well known debunker of diet myths, and he listed himself in the study as Johannes Bohannon. His real name is John Bohannon, so even [i]cursory[/i] google search for this doctor or his fictitious "Institute of Diet" would have raised a red flag. 3 You're right, academic peer review is a good check for handling these things, but I disagree that journalists shouldn't need to do their own verification. The specific case in this article was pretty egregious. The "lead clinician" in the study was actually a well known debunker of diet myths, and he listed himself in the study as Johannes Bohannon. His real name is John Bohannon, so even a [i]cursory[/i] google search for this doctor or his fictitious "Institute of Diet" would have raised a red flag.
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5 No, journalists don't have to run their own meta-analytic studies before writing about published research, but they should definitely google it once or twice first. 5 No, journalists don't have to run their own meta-analytic studies before writing about published research, but they should definitely google it once or twice first.