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On 15 January 2017, the Argentinian news site Nuevo Diario, among others, published an article with the (translated) headline Study Confirms That Chubby Women Make a Man Happier Than a Skinny Woman. That story was picked up by a number of English language sites, including The Laugh Bible: In terms of science journalism, a number of red flags were apparent right off the bat. The easiest to spot would be the fact that not a single news report on this topic provided a link to the new study it referenced. Second, and perhaps more damning, is the fact that a quick Google Scholar search provides no evidence that anybody named Filemón Alvarado or Edgardo Morales ever published anything remotely approaching this topic over at least the past two years. Third, a regular Google search on their names provides only links related to this one viral story. Additionally, the web site of the psychology department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (option one for UNAM) does not list someone by either name as a faculty member, and the web site for the National University of Misiones in Argentina (option two for UNAM) provides no evidence that the school has a psychology department at all. The final documentable red flag is the fact that the alleged study (a thesis reportedly titled Vale más que sobre y que no falte) does not turn up in a search of either institutions’ web sites. While we are not rating the claims of the study itself, we are rating its existence as unproven for the above reasons. We have reached out to both UNAMs and will update if either institution is able clarify the confusion.
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