Okay so people with who are less smart tend, on average, to drink more? Jokes aside, I am shocked that a study without a causal identification strategy is stil

Okay so people with who are less smart tend, on average, to drink more? Jokes aside, I am shocked that a study without a causal identification strategy is still published in such a journal. The authors straddle the line in their discussion, all but making causal claims regardless. This would never get greenlit in fields that have been emphasizing rigorous science despite the lack of pure experimental data. Ironically, this now includes most social sciences. Apparently, medicine has still ways to go. Edit: of course, the newspaper writers who wrote this exact headline deserve to figuratively burn in hell. This seriously contributes to the mispractice and misaligned incentives, such as in fields like nutrition science, where we have many great headlines but just about zero scientific advances in about a century