There’s a possibility that no branch of science suffers more at the hands of self-appointed freelancers than nutrition. Every darned fad diet that comes down the pike is the subject of thousands of glowing blog posts, each carefully tailored to suck in eyeballs. Never mind that three months later, the same "nutrition" or "fitness" blogger will be posting another glowing review of a different fad diet…
Those freelancers also hit the pay-for-hits sites,
too. Here’s a little piece of rubbish published by someone who calls
himself Emge over at DailyTwoCents, an article on “Benefits of Drinking Beer.”¹ We’ll forgive
the writer for the spelling and grammatical mistakes since English is not his first language,
but we won't forgive the misinformation:
