Of course the German “Bild” was the worst when it came to fact checking:
“Bild rushed their story out—”Those who eat chocolate stay slim!”—without contacting me at all.”
But there is hope:
“While the reporters just regurgitated our “findings,” many readers were thoughtful and skeptical. In the online comments, they posed questions that the reporters should have asked. "
“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of German researchers had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 percent faster if they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front page of Bild, Europe’s largest daily newspaper, just beneath their update about the Germanwings crash. From there, it…
