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this type of study should be headlined thusly: strong correlation found between alcohol consumption and decreased risk of heart disease. but I'm not naive enou
by nazgulnarsil 17y ago
this type of study should be headlined thusly: strong correlation found between alcohol consumption and decreased risk of heart disease. but I'm not naive enough to not understand why science has been sensationalized with inaccurate headlines for centuries.
- tungstenfurnace 17y agoCorrelation -- yes! Though it would be better to say "inverse correlation found between alcohol and CHD". Many people don't get that this observation is entirely consistent with alcohol's increasing the risk of CHD. An analogy is that car accidents correlate strongly with use of the brake pedal. Yet we know brake pedals reduce the risk of car accidents. If asked we can explain why this is so. >The exact mechanisms are as yet unclear If they were doing proper, hard science they would be conjecturing theories about such mechanisms and then testing those theories.