Healthcare Triage News: Elmo Stickers, Apples, and the Pain of Retracted Research

We’re once again talking about Brian Wasink, the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. They were in the news last year over a retracted study, and he’s back again with six more studies retracted. Nutrition research is hard. This is also not great for the public’s perception of science.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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