Chocolate consumption and Nobel Prizes: A bizarre juxtaposition if there ever was one

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Great example for methods class.
@conradhackett That implies I should have several Nobel Prizes by now!
It’s not just chocolate: Foods and Nobel laureates

Professor Rodolfo Baggio [pictured here] has built upon Franz Messerli’s recent research about chocolate consumption and Nobel laureates. We are publishing, here, Baggio’s study [which …

@conradhackett it's fitting that I'm eating chocolate while I read this!
@conradhackett Seems like Swiss chocolate is better than German chocolate though.
@conradhackett looks like the Germans eat the wrong kind of chocolate. Probably those surprise eggs.
@conradhackett gggh..... is this a nice troll on correlation is not causation?
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die Zahl der Geburten in Deutschlnd ist auch gestiegen, seitdem wir wieder mehr Störche haben ... ;)
@conradhackett I have a 32 hectares of cocoa farm every year I feel I should cut down the cocoa plants and just focus on something else.
I barely eat chocolate or any of the cocoa products.
The farm barely makes money compared those on the food chain, we the farmers are the poorest.
Just one day soon I might just switch that farm to something more profitable.
@conradhackett now do Beer per nobelprice! 🤓
@conradhackett is there a Nobel Prize for eating chocolate? You'd think that the Swiss would be onto this.
@conradhackett How on earth is Belgium mid-table for chocolate consumption?
@pontulo @conradhackett well if they just up their science game, they will get to eat more of it, apparently.
@conradhackett the trend is reversed if you only select Scandinavian and German speaking countries.

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