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Today's episode is kind of about ice cream and kind of about the entire diet research

industry, and kind of about the nature of science, and it begins with a story.

Last summer, the author, David Johns, got a hot tip.

He learned that a dissertation by a Harvard PhD had reported that ice cream was protective

against diabetes, and Dave thought that sounded pretty weird.

We all know the deal with ice cream, it is delicious, it's sugary, it's definitely not

good for you.

But motivated by perhaps a sense of wishful thinking, he went and checked it out, and it

turned out that the department chair at Harvard had himself produced data showing a strong

correlation between eating ice cream and good health.

So Dave kept digging, and he found another paper finding this connection and another paper

and another.

But when these papers were reported in the press, they rarely mentioned their ice cream

findings.

The scientists essentially waved away the results of their own science.

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