Three ways to spot dodgy nutrition advice -- Futurity

https://www.futurity.org/nutrition-advice-red-flags-2070432-2/

A coworker desperate to help a loved one with cancer once showed me an article about a supposed cure. It concluded with a long list of citations designed to impress the naïve -- especially the Dunning-Kruegerishly naïve like my coworker. Problem was, the citations were nothing but journal titles. As anyone who's had actual experience with scientific or medical journals knows, each of these typically comes out several times a year and each issue comprises dozens of papers filling hundreds of pages. So a "citation" consisting of nothing but a journal title is absolutely worthless. There's no practical way to pore through thousands of pages for each title in search of something supporting the claims in the article. The sole purpose of such a phony list is to make a quack look legitimate to those who don't know any better.