The last we heard from John Bohannon, he was proving that many open-access journals will print almost anything. Now he's showing how quickly the popular media will jump on a (phony) study claiming that chocolate can help you lose weight: "The key is to exploit journalists' incredible laziness." Also, Gary Schwitzer says the problem may be even worse than Bohannon thinks. But Rachel Ehrenberg says the stunt was unethical.
May 29, 2015
