But, more recently, together with Gunter Frank MD and two journalists, Diana Löbl and Peter Onneken, he conducted a real study on humans, intentionally designed to create some false positives. The study “proved” that chocolate eating may cause weight loss, which was of course good news for a chocolate-addicted and weight-obsessed society. It might sound funny, but in fact Bohannon et. al’s study was not the first one to claim so. This was also a conclusion of the paper by Beatrice A. Golomb et. al, Association Between More Frequent Chocolate Consumption and Lower Body Mass Index, which was published in 2012 in JAMA Internal Medicine, a high impact journal. According to Google Scholar Golomb’s paper was cited 52 times. So although, the design of the Bohannon et. al study was intentionally bad, the conclusion should not be seen as something strange.