date:Oct 11, 2012
that the Nobel panel, based in Sweden, may have patriotic bias toward fellow countrymen or that Swedes are very sensitive to the effects of chocolate so that even minuscule amounts greatly enhance their cognition.
It is possible, he admits, that chocolate isn't making people smart, but that smart people who are more likely to win Nobels are aware of chocolate's benefits and therefore more likely to consume it.
Sven Lidin, the chairman of the Nobel chemistry prize committee, had not seen the