Busting the Spinach Supermyth: The Skeptic’s Compendium
By Mike Sutton
The popular 32 year old myth that a misplaced decimal point in the published results of the iron content of spinach by Professor von Wolff, or else von Bunge, in the 19th century influenced scientists in the 20th century [...]
Spin@ge II: Does the United States Department of Agriculture’s Publication of Spuriofacts Have its Origins in a Perverse Scientific Paper Written in 1937?
By Mike Sutton.
In an earlier article, Spin@ge (Sutton 2011), I revealed how the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is irrationally promoting spinach as a good source of iron. This article provides some additional historical context [...]