There is science which involves studying objective, physical things that have been repeatedly evaluated by independent scientists and proven time and time again.<p>And there is this new class of 'science' which is tantamount to p-value hacking and only slightly better than social engineering.<p>Coffee cures cancer. Year 2010
Coffee doesn't cure cancer. Year 2011
Black chocolate prevents heart attacks... And so on<p>Most of these studies read something like this: 'we asked a hundred people what they ate for the last month'. I don't even remember what I ate for my evening snack yesterday.<p>It's really poorly controlled and definitely not the rigor that goes with proper science. This should not even be taught in schools let alone treated as 'research'.
"The revised paper says only that people eating the Mediterranean diet had fewer strokes and heart attacks, not, as the original paper claimed, that the diet was the direct cause of those health benefits."<p>A typical wording for that sort of research, not really a retraction.