I knew who he is...
Mr. Dietary Guidelines.
It shows how little you know about diet and nutrition.
He’s not ‘Mr Dietary Guidelines.’ His work was based on behavioural patterns in eating, including size of plates and distance from serving areas in ‘all you can eat’ restaurants in determining the amount of food eaten.
Maybe you should read up about him before you comment.
I’d suggest the two links in the OP for starters.
Then we can talk.
I did read the two linked articles. Did you? Did you understand them? Have you ever thought about getting some help in improving your reading comprehension?
This shit again. No, it's not me, it's you.
He’s not ‘Mr Dietary Guidelines.’ His work was based on behavioural patterns in eating, including size of plates and distance from serving areas in ‘all you can eat’ restaurants in determining the amount of food eaten. He had little or nothing to do with dietary guidelines on recommended foods.
Here's what you missed when you read the links in the OP:
A top Cornell food researcher has had 13 studies retracted. That’s a lot. - VoxHe once led the USDA committee on dietary guidelines and influenced public policy.
Sloppy science bears substantial blame for Americans' bad eating habitsHe had a central role in all our diets. From 2007 to 2010, he served as executive director of the U.S. government’s Dietary Guidelines, which set the standard for healthy eating for the nation. Under Wansink, the guidelines shifted to be ever-more based on the same type of easily manipulated, weak observational data he produced in his lab. A new iteration of the guidelines, under a different director, was issued in 2015, yet the reliance on weak data has remained the same.
And from his own CV
publications.dyson.cornell.edu/vita/Wansink-vita.pdf2007-2009: USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion – Executive Director
• Proposed the Half-Plate approach, which became MyPlate.gov
• Led the revision of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for America
• Launched 4 new consumer tools (average of 750,000 web-page views/day) • Created the USDA Corporate Challenge and enlisted 102 partners
• Increased web-hits to MyPyramid.gov to 5.6 million/day (44% increase)
• Proposed and chartered the President’s Council for Family Nutrition
And the first paragraph of his wiki page.
Brian Wansink - WikipediaHe is the former executive director of the USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) (2007–2009)
His papers have been retracted because he tortured the data till they confessed, or he fabricated the data.
That's true for a few of his papers, but is an understatement. He also copied data from other sources and encouraged researchers to engage in blatant p-hacking.
Here is an up to date (and probably growing) list from RW.
Retraction Watch DatabaseI think it's interesting that the Executive Director of the USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, responsible for the USDA dietary guidelines, claims that he did not know what p-hacking was and is having papers retracted left and right because the data was being manipulated.
Is it possible to retract the USDA dietary guidelines?
