A Cornell professor whose buzzy and accessible food studies made him a media darling has submitted his resignation, the school said Thursday, a dramatic fall for a scholar whose work increasingly came under question in recent years..The move follows the recent retraction of six of Wansink’s papers by the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network, including those about how serving bowl size affected food consumption, how fasting changed people’s food preferences and how action-packed television programs increased food intake.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2018/09/20/this-ivy-league-food-scientist-was-media-darling-now-his-studies-are-being-retracted/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.72d069516572
Honestly, some of above research questions sounds really silly, but they end up in JAMA. In the recent psychology replication projects, almost all the studies that couldn't be replicated was correctly predicted. For example, washing hands will remove past moral concerns! And these somehow end up in journals like Science and Nature.
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