This week we&apos;re diving into one of the biggest-ever scandals in nutrition research. For nearly two decades, Brian Wansink&apos;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.  Support us:<ul><li><a href='https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase'>Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a></li><li><a href='https://paypal.me/maintenancephase'>Donate on PayPal</a></li><li><a href='http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase'>Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers, face masks and more</a></li></ul>Links!<ul><li><a href='https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/09/what-is-food-science/571105/'>A Credibility Crisis in Food Science</a></li><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/20170308230401/https://peerj.com/preprints/2748.pdf'>Statistical heartburn: An attempt to digest four pizza publications from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab</a></li><li><a href='https://undark.org/2018/03/13/brian-wansink-data-masseur-science/'>Brian Wansink: Data Masseur, Media Villain, Emblem of a Thornier Problem</a></li><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/20180301184634/https://www.timvanderzee.com/the-wansink-dossier-an-overview/'>The Wansink Dossier: An Overview</a></li><li><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/sunday-review/cornell-food-scientist-wansink-misconduct.html'>More Evidence That Nutrition Studies Don’t Always Add Up</a></li><li><a href='https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/brian-wansink-cornell-p-hacking'>Here’s How Cornell Scientist Brian Wansink Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies About How We Eat</a></li><li><a href='https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797611417632?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&amp;rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed'>False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant</a></li><li><a href='https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/how-brian-wansink-forgot-the-difference-between-science-and-marketing.html'>Death of a Veggie Salesman</a></li><li><a href='https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-strange-uplifting-tale-of-joy-of-cooking-versus-the-food-scientist'>The Strange, Uplifting Tale of “Joy of Cooking” Versus the Food Scientist</a></li><li><a href='https://www.thelunchtray.com/moms-food-fears-internet-wansink/'>Moms, “Food Fears” and the Power of the Internet</a></li><li><a href='https://peerj.com/preprints/3137v1/'>The science behind Smarter Lunchrooms</a></li><li><a href='https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition/'>You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition</a></li><li><a href='https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo2014199'>Energy balance measurement: when something is not better than nothing</a></li><li><a href='https://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-errors-1.14700'>Scientific method: Statistical errors</a></li><li><a href='https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2478057'>Effect of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act on the Nutritional Quality of Meals Selected by Students and School Lunch Participation Rates</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a> (https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase)

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