Could Eating This Breakfast Food Help You Live Longer?

Probably not. A hilarious tale of bad science reporting.

Is the breakfast food somewhere in this picture? Read on to find out! Photo by Rachel Park on Unsplash

In over a decade of writing, I’ve covered an abundance of bad science in the media. When you’re looking at scientific reporting, there are just so many ways that media organizations can mess up even the most basic of science. Sometimes it’s through incompetence, sometimes perverse incentives, and occasionally malice, but whatever the reason I thought I’d seen everything that could go wrong in a scientific story.

I was wrong. A new Fox News story has screwed up science in perhaps the most hilarious way I’ve ever seen.