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I remember that as a kid, pitching in a game — 10 years old — so nervous and so scared.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be uncomfortable at the time, he says, but \"that's great to have in a situation where the stakes are really low — where, if you fail you're still going to get pizza and ice cream, and your parents are still going to tell you they love you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If kids can learn to fight their fear and work through it, he says, that steadiness comes in handy later in life — when the stakes are much higher. It's an ability Octavio says he relies on routinely, as a software entrepreneur who has created, bought and sold a number of companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Octavio also stresses the value of learning to be part of a team — both in childhood and now, at the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just like that baseball team when we were little kids,\" he says. \"Not all the kids were great hitters, or could pitch. But everyone could contribute.\" His business works the same way, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't do everything. My partner can't do everything. We hire people who are good at what they do — we put together a team, come up with an idea, execute. 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He says parents are right when they cite \u003ca href=\"http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/dev/42/5/849/\">life skills\u003c/a> — like discipline, commitment and physical confidence — that can develop naturally when kids play sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent study that's not yet published, Driska and his colleagues looked at an intense two-week wrestling camp, measuring feelings and attitudes of 89 teens before the camp experience and after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As expected, the players' confidence increased — it was a tough camp to get through, Driska says. But what surprised him, he says, was how much feelings of hopefulness among the young people also increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Profoundly so, he says. One teenage boy, for example, told Driska the camp changed the way he interacted with his mom, helping to quell the bitter arguments they always seemed to fall into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He said that he sat down — talked it out, resolved the situation,\" Driska says. The teen told Driska that \"before camp he would not have done that — been pro-active in seeking a solution. He simply would have walked away and just been bitter or complained about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a brief sports experience at camp, that teen and many of the others developed a \"can do\" life strategy that seemed to translate to other aspects of their lives, Driska says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that change persisted. Nine months after the camp ended, Driska notes, the teens in his study maintained their bolstered sense of confidence — and hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Our Sports and Health series continues over the summer, based on the results of our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://media.npr.org/documents/2015/june/sportsandhealthpoll.pdf\">poll\u003c/a> \u003cem>with the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rwjf.org/\">Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\u003c/a>\u003cem> and the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/\">Harvard T.H. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the past, if Sara Solovitch tripped up while playing the piano, she would get flustered and stop. Especially in front of an audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had to correct everything and each note had to be perfect,” the Santa Cruz-based author and pianist recently said after playing the French composer Claude Debussy’s lyrical piano piece \u003cem>Reflections on the Water\u003c/em>. She’d breezed through a few bum notes as if no one were listening. “One of the things I’ve really worked on has been continuing to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>For the past three years, Solovitch has been coming regularly to San Jose International airport to play the beat-up Hamilton baby grand located in the Terminal B baggage claim area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/211133564″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>Here, I’m not worried about people’s judgment and evaluation,” Solovitch said. “People aren’t listening and that’s kind of a godsend to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003c/i>Alongside doing yoga and taking anti-anxiety meds, Solovitch’s impromptu airport recitals are part of her push to overcome stage fright — a phobia that has plagued the musician since she was a little girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now she’s written a book on the subject — \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/playing-scared-9781620400913/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Playing Scared: A History and Memoir of Stage Fright\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solovitch loves the piano. But she’s so scared of playing the instrument in public that even practicing at home when her family is around regularly unsettles her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hands turn wet with sweat and they’ll slip and slide,” Solovitch said. “My feet tremble so that I have a hard time controlling the pedal. I feel my heart beating really uncontrollably. And then there’s just this kind of like pounding in my head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solovitch is an amateur musician. But even the most seasoned performers struggle with stage fright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10766552\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/IMG_2733.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10766552\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/IMG_2733-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Comedian W Kamau Bell at home in Berkeley. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/IMG_2733-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/IMG_2733-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/IMG_2733-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/IMG_2733-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comedian W Kamau Bell at home in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley standup comedian W Kamau Bell has hosted his own cable TV series and has appeared on popular podcasts like \u003cem>WTF with Marc Maron\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet despite Bell’s impressive chops and widespread renown, the comic still suffers from performance anxiety on a regular basis. And it makes no difference if he’s in front of a national television audience or a small crowd at a bar; he says his mind scrambles and his mouth goes dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve often said that if there’s a way to email the crowd the jokes and still get the same feeling from performing live I would just as soon do that,” Bell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just performers who deal with this issue. San Francisco Jungian psychiatrist John Beebe, who has dealt with performance anxiety in his own career and treats people who suffer from it, thinks stage fright is universal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we can’t live up to the image we’d like to project we just feel within ourselves that we fail terribly,” Beebe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Beebe believes people can overcome stage fright if they face it head on. Repetition is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think some of us have learned that the only way to master anything is to practice and do it,” Beebe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A steady diet of playing to passersby at San Jose Airport has helped Sara Solovitch vanquish her stage fright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to practice performing as much as you practice practise,” Solovitch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her practice seems to have paid off: Solovitch is actually looking forward to her next gig. She’ll be performing at the public library in Santa Cruz in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to talk to myself the way one doesn’t talk to their dog: You know, ‘you’re stupid, you’re an idiot, how could you make that mistake?’” Solovitch said. “And now as I approach a performance, instead of saying ‘I’m nervous,’ I say to myself ‘I’m excited.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sara Solovitch’s new book, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/playing-scared-9781620400913/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Playing Scared: A History and Memoir of Stage Fright\u003c/a> comes out this week from Bloomsbury Publishing.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to an audio version of this story on The California Report, Friday June 19. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Women who were exposed to higher amounts of the pesticide DDT while they were in utero are linked to having a nearly four-fold increased risk of breast cancer decades later than women who were exposed to lower levels prenatally, according to a study led by researchers at Oakland's Public Health Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association was made through analysis of an extraordinary data set of more than 20,000 pregnant women who enrolled in a study between 1959-1967. The women, members of (what was then called) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in and around Oakland, gave blood samples when they were pregnant or in the days following delivery. Now, decades later, the daughters of those women are reaching an age where breast cancer cases would start to be seen in greater numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of other evidence, researchers had theorized that in utero DDT exposure could increase a woman's breast cancer risk. 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Pregnant women who suffer from serious depression face a difficult dilemma: Should they continue taking medication and risk unknown side effects to the fetus, or go through their pregnancies trying to handle their depression without medication?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Author Andrew Solomon tells \"Fresh Air's\"\u003ci> \u003c/i>Terry Gross that there is an \"enormous amount of research which establishes relatively definitively that the drugs don't cause significant birth defects.\" But the long-term effects of these medications aren't clearly known. \"The jury is still out on what happens in a developing brain and whether those people, as they get into adulthood, will have slight shifts in their personality or consciousness or their vulnerability to depression on the basis of their prenatal exposure,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Solomon points out that a depressed mother can also be harmful to the fetus. Stress can also increase the level of cortisol, a hormone, and affect the fetus. \"Women who are depressed are less likely to keep all of their obstetrical appointments, are more likely to drink or use substances of abuse, are less likely to regulate their exercise and what they eat in the ways that are best for a developing fetus,\" he says. \"It's harder to be good at pregnancy when you're depressed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solomon's article, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/magazine/the-secret-sadness-of-pregnancy-with-depression.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">The Secret Sadness of Pregnancy With Depression,\u003c/a>\" recently appeared in The New York Times Magazine\u003cem>. \u003c/em>Solomon's own depression led him to write his 2001 book, \"The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression\u003cem>,\" \u003c/em>which has just been published in a new edition with a new chapter about the latest developments in treating depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the problems in doing research on how medications might affect pregnant women\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can say to a group of nonpregnant women, \"We're going to give half of you Prozac and half of you a placebo, and we're going to follow you for the next two months and see what happens.\" It is outside of ethical guidelines to do the same thing with pregnant women. You can't have people taking that risk for a developing fetus, and you can't say, \"We're giving half of you this drug and half of you a placebo and we'll see what happens.\" Instead, studies of the effects of drugs on fetal development or on pregnant women are based on retrospective work. You say, \"Let's look at all of the children who have a particular cardiac defect and see how many of their mothers were taking medication.\" Or you say, \"After the whole thing is over, let's see how the women who were voluntarily taking medication fared as oppose to the women who chose to stay off it.\" But those are often not comparable groups. The people who choose to stay on medication during pregnancy are likely to have more severe depression than the ones who are able to go off, or to have a very different structure of personality that makes it harder for them to deal with the depression. So the confounding factors are enormous and confusing and the research is therefore never very definitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how depression and stress can negatively impact a fetus, such as causing high levels of the hormone cortisol\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appears that cortisol is implicated in the constriction of the uterine artery, which means that it reduces the blood flow to the placenta. That is a very serious matter that warrants consideration. It would also appear that some of the other chemicals that circulate in the brains (and therefore in the bloodstream) of people who are depressed will be circulating and making it through to that placenta and that fetus, and they will be having a direct effect, which may be comparably dramatic, to the direct effect of anti-depressants. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large portion of women who are depressed during pregnancy will be depressed after the baby is born. It's not as though the baby comes out and suddenly the whole thing goes away. Depression in the early stages of taking care of an infant involves terrible suffering for the mother who feels utterly overwhelmed and unequal to what she is now required to do, and it's not good for the baby, because depressed mothers tend to be irritable and inattentive and neither of those is a good way to be with a newborn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what he's learned about managing his own depression \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You always have to be vigilant with it, you always have to deal with it. It is, for most people, a lifetime condition and it requires constant management. I go and see a psychotherapist every week, not so much because what happens in any individual session is transformative, but because I feel it's important that there be someone, a trained professional, who is watching what is going on. And he said to be me one day, when I was being a little cavalier about some of what I thought were minor symptoms of depression, he said, \"Let us never forget in this room that you are very capable of taking the express elevator to the bargain basement of mental health.\" And I think that consciousness has had to be something that I've learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In talking to so many people and hearing about so many situations, really what I've come to is the feeling that depression mostly is manageable, but if not well managed it can be tragic, and that most people who are seeking treatment are not getting very good treatment, and that many people who would benefit from treatment are not even seeking that treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On his very unconventional family \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My husband John is the biological father of two children with some lesbian friends in Minneapolis. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did researchers find? Among the tattooed park-goers, 31, or 10 percent, said they'd experienced some sort of adverse reaction after a tattoo. About 4 percent had a problem that didn't last very long, such as pain, infection or swelling. And 6 percent said they'd had a problem that persisted longer than four months, such as itching or scaly skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proportion that reported chronic reactions surprised Leger. \"I think that's pretty interesting,\" she tells Shots. Leger has treated quite a few patients for tattoo reactions. Antibiotics can help with infections and steroids (both creams and injections) can relieve other symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cod.12425/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">findings were published online\u003c/a> Wednesday by the journal \u003cem>Contact Dermatitis.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Park survey had some obvious limitations. Foremost among them, the people surveyed described the problems themselves and they weren't independently assessed by doctors as part of the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when doctors do get involved, it's a challenge to definitively diagnose allergic reactions to tattoo inks, in particular. The reactions can vary quite a bit, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003519.htm\" target=\"_blank\">patch testing\u003c/a> of inks, a standby in dermatology, isn't very reliable, Leger says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are some well-known tattoo risks, such as infections from needles that aren't sterile, there are lots of open questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tattoo inks, for instance, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm048919.htm\">aren't regulated\u003c/a> by the Food and Drug Administration. Agency researchers looking into the inks have learned that a yellow pigment used in inks \u003ca href=\"http://dmd.aspetjournals.org/content/33/10/1459.long\" target=\"_blank\">can be broken down by the body\u003c/a>, which might explain why the yellow portions of some tattoos can fade with time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, most people who get tattoos don't have any problems with them, as the Central Park survey found. \"It's been my experience that true allergic reactions to the ink are uncommon,\" says Dr. Elizabeth McBurney, a dermatologist in Lafayette, La., who wasn't involved in the Central Park study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's been removing tattoos since the 1970s, and says about 40 percent of her practice now involves helping patients de-ink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No more than 5 or 10 percent of her patients have medical problems with their tattoos, she says. \"The majority of people who come in want the tattoo removed for economic, social or professional reasons,\" she says. A lawyer or doctor who got a fraternity tattoo in college may want it taken off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most often, McBurney \u003ca href=\"http://picosure.com/tattoo-removal/\" target=\"_blank\">uses a laser\u003c/a> to remove tattoos. The process requires as many as a half-dozen sessions, which cost hundreds of dollars apiece. \"Think before you ink,\" she says of tattoos. \"It's a lot cheaper to put them on than to take them off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+We+Know+About+Tattoo+Reactions+Only+Goes+Skin-Deep&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Earlier this spring, headlines around the world trumpeted an exciting bit of news that seemed too good to be true: \"Eating that bar of chocolate can HELP you lose weight,\" as Britain's \u003cem>Daily Mail\u003c/em> put it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From India to Australia and Texas to Germany, news organizations shared \u003ca href=\"http://instituteofdiet.com/2015/03/24/international-archives-of-medicine-chocolate-with-high-cocoa-content-as-a-weight-loss-accelerator/\" target=\"_blank\">findings\u003c/a> published in the \u003cem>International Archives of Medicine\u003c/em> in late March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem? The study they were based on was pure junk. And the person behind it, \u003ca href=\"http://www.johnbohannon.org/\">John Bohannon\u003c/a>, would be the first to tell you that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, that's exactly what he did Wednesday, in a \u003ca href=\"http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800\" target=\"_blank\">story for io9\u003c/a> that's gone viral. Bohannon, a science journalist who also has a Ph.D., lays out how he carried out an elaborate hoax to expose just how easily bad nutrition science gets disseminated in the mainstream media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diet science, Bohannon stresses, is still science – and reporters need to know how to cover it. \"You have to know how to read a scientific paper — and actually bother to do it,\" he writes. \"For far too long, the people who cover this beat have treated it like gossip, echoing whatever they find in press releases. Hopefully our little experiment will make reporters and readers alike more skeptical.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, the study involved was real — a randomized controlled trial. Bohannon and his partners, a German television reporter and his collaborator, really did recruit 16 people for a study on dieting. And they found that the ones who followed a low-carb diet and also ate a 1.5-ounce bar of dark chocolate daily lost weight faster than the control group that was dieting alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what's the problem, you ask? There are plenty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, as Bohannon explains in great detail, the study design itself was flawed — it had too few subjects, and the research measured too many factors, making it likelier that some random factor would appear to have statistical significance. (Bohannon does an excellent job of explaining the specifics himself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the journal that published it — a so-called pay-for-play publication, which failed to carry out peer review of the findings. As Bohannon himself \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/10/03/228859954/some-online-journals-will-publish-fake-science-for-a-fee\" target=\"_blank\">exposed\u003c/a> in another sting for the journal \u003cem>Science\u003c/em> a couple of years ago, there are lots of these publications that will publish bad research for a fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, none of the reporters who covered it asked an outside expert to weigh in on the research – standard operating procedure in good science journalism. If they had, an astute scientist would have spotted the problems with the study design immediately. Indeed, just this week, our sister blog, Shots, ran a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/05/27/408767323/did-a-study-overreach-when-it-said-a-vaccine-prevents-leukemia\" target=\"_blank\">great post\u003c/a> by Tara Haelle explaining how this process of tapping independent experts helped steer her from reporting on a flawed study suggesting that a childhood vaccine prevents leukemia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bohannon's full story is long, but worth the read as an explanation of the pitfalls that plague science communication – especially nutrition information – in today's media climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the problem is \u003cem>massive\u003c/em>, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthnewsreview.org/about-us/reviewers/gary-schwitzer/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Schwitzer\u003c/a>, the publisher of \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthnewsreview.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Health News Review\u003c/a>. For the past nine years, the site has been dedicated to critiquing the media's coverage of health in an effort to improve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's really only scratching the surface of a much broader, much deeper problem,\" Schwitzer says. \"We have examples of journalists reporting on a study that was never done. We have news releases from medical journals, academic institutions and industry that mislead journalists, who then mislead the public.\" And the pressure to publish or perish, he says, can lead well-intentioned scientists to frame their work in ways that aren't completely accurate or balanced or supported by the facts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are really mired in a mess, the boundaries of which few people really have a sense for,\" says Schwitzer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwitzer says it's appropriate that Bohannon chose chocolate for his diet study stunt. From claims that chocolate can \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthnewsreview.org/news-release-review/sweet-nothing-no-evidence-costs-or-quantification-in-release-about-cocoa-and-cognitive-function/\" target=\"_blank\">boost memory\u003c/a> to press releases that \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2011/08/the-bmj-news-release-that-keeps-on-giving-the-gift-of-chocolate-hype/\" target=\"_blank\">oversell its benefit\u003c/a> to heart health, the sweet stuff is the subject of many of the news stories Schwitzer's site criticizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But does Bohannon's stunt reveal the credibility crisis in nutrition science journalism or add to it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's a little of both,\" Schwitzer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwitzer is a fan of Bohannon's message – but he \u003ca href=\"http://retractionwatch.com/2015/05/28/should-the-chocolate-diet-sting-study-be-retracted-and-why-the-coverage-doesnt-surprise-a-news-watchdog/\" target=\"_blank\">worries\u003c/a> that it will get lost in our rapid churn, 24-hour news cycle, and the journalists who need to be schooled in proper nutrition science reporting will have already moved on to the next thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are others who aren't taking kindly to Bohannon's work. On Twitter last night, some scientists raised concerns about the ethics of running a study with human subjects with the ultimate intent to deceive, and whether participants could give informed consent if they didn't know that aim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.med.nyu.edu/pophealth/faculty/caplaa01\">Art Caplan\u003c/a>, a bioethicist with the New York University Langone Medical Center, says Bohannon's experiment straddles the line between journalism and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a fan of the study,\" he tells The Salt, \"because I think it shows certain issues in understanding media reports about nutrition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he says, participants should have been debriefed at the end of the study period about what Bohannon intended to do with the data. (Note: We've reached out to Bohannon to ask about what participants were told and will post an update if we get more details.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not everyone agrees that Bohannon's ends justify his means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's totally not ethical. It's deliberate deception in a way that could harm people,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://about.poynter.org/about-us/our-people/kelly-mcbride\">Kelly McBride\u003c/a>, a media ethicist with the Poynter Institute. She adds: \"There's so much bad information out there, especially around diet and science, that when you make it worse you become part of the problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two months have gone by since the headlines touting Bohannon's study first appeared. By now, as McBride notes, many of the people who read the news stories touting chocolate's weight-loss benefits have moved on – and may not ever come across updates explaining it was all a ruse in the service of better nutrition journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the journalists for whom this exercise was intended? McBride doubts they've learned their lesson, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a great teaching tool to humiliate people,\" she says, \"because people learn when they have a need to learn something, not when they're embarrassed or fear being embarrassed. 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(Bohannon does an excellent job of explaining the specifics himself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the journal that published it — a so-called pay-for-play publication, which failed to carry out peer review of the findings. As Bohannon himself \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/10/03/228859954/some-online-journals-will-publish-fake-science-for-a-fee\" target=\"_blank\">exposed\u003c/a> in another sting for the journal \u003cem>Science\u003c/em> a couple of years ago, there are lots of these publications that will publish bad research for a fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, none of the reporters who covered it asked an outside expert to weigh in on the research – standard operating procedure in good science journalism. If they had, an astute scientist would have spotted the problems with the study design immediately. 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For the past nine years, the site has been dedicated to critiquing the media's coverage of health in an effort to improve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's really only scratching the surface of a much broader, much deeper problem,\" Schwitzer says. \"We have examples of journalists reporting on a study that was never done. We have news releases from medical journals, academic institutions and industry that mislead journalists, who then mislead the public.\" And the pressure to publish or perish, he says, can lead well-intentioned scientists to frame their work in ways that aren't completely accurate or balanced or supported by the facts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are really mired in a mess, the boundaries of which few people really have a sense for,\" says Schwitzer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwitzer says it's appropriate that Bohannon chose chocolate for his diet study stunt. From claims that chocolate can \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthnewsreview.org/news-release-review/sweet-nothing-no-evidence-costs-or-quantification-in-release-about-cocoa-and-cognitive-function/\" target=\"_blank\">boost memory\u003c/a> to press releases that \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2011/08/the-bmj-news-release-that-keeps-on-giving-the-gift-of-chocolate-hype/\" target=\"_blank\">oversell its benefit\u003c/a> to heart health, the sweet stuff is the subject of many of the news stories Schwitzer's site criticizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But does Bohannon's stunt reveal the credibility crisis in nutrition science journalism or add to it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's a little of both,\" Schwitzer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwitzer is a fan of Bohannon's message – but he \u003ca href=\"http://retractionwatch.com/2015/05/28/should-the-chocolate-diet-sting-study-be-retracted-and-why-the-coverage-doesnt-surprise-a-news-watchdog/\" target=\"_blank\">worries\u003c/a> that it will get lost in our rapid churn, 24-hour news cycle, and the journalists who need to be schooled in proper nutrition science reporting will have already moved on to the next thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are others who aren't taking kindly to Bohannon's work. On Twitter last night, some scientists raised concerns about the ethics of running a study with human subjects with the ultimate intent to deceive, and whether participants could give informed consent if they didn't know that aim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.med.nyu.edu/pophealth/faculty/caplaa01\">Art Caplan\u003c/a>, a bioethicist with the New York University Langone Medical Center, says Bohannon's experiment straddles the line between journalism and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a fan of the study,\" he tells The Salt, \"because I think it shows certain issues in understanding media reports about nutrition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he says, participants should have been debriefed at the end of the study period about what Bohannon intended to do with the data. 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