The news heard around the world: eating chocolate can help you lose weight! What wonderful news... or is it? We will discuss the growing problem of bad journalism, fake academic journals, terrible medical research, and what we can do about it.     We are going to look at a study from Germany that you’ve hopefully heard of, and if not you definitely should. The amount of mixed emotions it elicited is absolutely unparalleled, and both health research and health journalism will (hopefully) never be the same again.   We will be joined today with the author of the study, Dr John Bohannon, once revered as the research director of the Institute of Diet and Health, currently back to being a journalist, visiting professor at Harvard and owner and chief judge of the Dance Your Ph.D. competition.   -------------- The original research paper is no longer on the international archives of medicine website, but a link to where you can read it for free is on the discussion post on www.thehealthfilespodcast.com, as well as links to all the other articles I mentioned in the show today as week as John’s official expose article AND a fun infographic that I made especially for this episode discussing the study and all of its flaws. Please it check it out, it took me forever to make! Thank you!