Journals Retract 6 More Articles by a Controversial Cornell Food Scientist

The retractions keep stacking up for Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell University (NY) Food and Brand Lab, whose high-profile research on the psychology of diet has turned out to be riddled with errors. The latest blow fell on Wednesday, when the JAMA Network, a group of journals published by the American Medical Association, announced that six of Wansink’s papers, appearing in three journals, had been retracted.