ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Obes Rev. 2019 Nov;20(11):1523–1541. doi: 10.1111/obr.12923.This is a thoughtful position statement by a number of leading obesity researchers and statisticians. They draw attention to 10 errors that are common in the scientific literature: 1. Using self-reported outcomes and ‘teaching to the test’ (achieving better scores simply by repeat testing); 2. L...

To read the full abstract: Nat Med 2020;26(4):485–497.More than 100 medical and scientific organizations supported this international consensus statement, which describes impressively how unscientific public narratives of obesity cause weight stigma and stimulates discrimination of obese people. Consequently, the statement calls for strong policies and legislation to prevent weight-bas...