THE PROBLEM WITH SEXY SCIENCE

a high-profile lab at Cornell University, more than 200 scientific studies to his name, and a best-selling book. Plus, his research was really cool. Wansink studied how physical cues affect our eating habits. He found, for example, that people who leave their cereal in plain view tend to weigh more than people who keep it out of sight, and that people consume more when they use bigger plates. I profiled him for in 2015 and sifted through dozens of his papers. Like the junk food he studied, his work had