Chocolate Diet Paper Won’t Be Retracted, Because It Was Never Published

Yesterday, John Bohannon reported on his deeply (and intentionally) flawed study claiming chocolate accelerates weight loss. Today, we have a new twist: The editor of the journal that published his paper claims they never really published it in the first place, despite emails to Bohannon to the contrary.

Source: Chocolate Diet Paper Won’t Be Retracted, Because It Was Never Published

This is beautiful and frightening. I’m glad someone did this in order to illustrate the problems with [nutritional] science today, but damn. So many people bought it hook, line and sinker.