"Cacao or Caca? How the media bit into chocolate Nobel prize link"

Whether it was satire or ginormous bogosity, it shouldn't have gotten anywhere near the publicity it did.

Comments

[Joe R.]

Correlation ain't causation. And there's very little correlation here.

[Jack]

It's hard to say if it's tongue-in-cheek or whether the researcher truly is clueless about how to analyze non-experimental data (would not be surprised, given what other rubbish gets published in journals that usually deal with experimental data).

He says ''I've presented it to a few of my colleagues, and nobody has any thoughts.'' No thoughts? How about asking one of your undergrad students who has taken a Stats 101 or intro econometrics course to teach you something?

[Paul Jaminet]

Spoilsport!