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Nobel prizes, chocolate and milk: the statistical view
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- Published on: 1 October 2013
- Published on: 1 October 2013Chocolate Consumption, Nobel Prizes and -Scientific IntegrityShow More
In a paper published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Messerli noted "a surprisingly powerful correlation between chocolate intake per capita and the number of Nobel laureates in various countries," which he postulated as "most likely" related to the cognitive enhancing benefits of chocolate.1 This article in one of the premier journals in the world received extraordinary press reports around the t...
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