The history behind the chocolate hoax and why it was almost a ‘beer & schnapps’ hoax

• Autores: Damaris Colhoun
• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 54, Nº. 2, 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An interview with documentary filmmaker Peter Onneken is presented. He talks about a media hoax by him along with documentary filmmaker Diana L#46bl and biologist John Bohannon regarding their study on weight loss due to chocolate, inaccurate science helping the diet industry to sell diets and their documentary on science and diet industry. He mentions that there was no need to publish their research as nothing was new in it and highlights publicity of their documentary through the hoax.