his study. Not only was Bohannon’s con ethically reprehensible — he lied to the public, undermining their trust in both journalism and science — but also Bohannon is guilty of the very practices he claims he exposed.
Let’s start with the ethics. Deception in the name of journalism has a long history. Typically it’s used to uncover serious wrongs,
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The main mark in Bohannon’s sting wasn’t shoddy scientific journals that publish shoddy studies that use shoddy statistics. It was the reporters who cover those studies,
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The study showed accelerated weight loss in the chocolate-eating group,
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“People who are on the health science beat need to treat it like science, and that has to come from the editors. And

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