Two great books, both by an engineer out of the UK. The Epidemiologists: Have They Got Scares for You! Sorry, Wrong Number!: The Abuse of Measurement

Two great books, both by an engineer out of the UK. The Epidemiologists: Have They Got Scares for You! Sorry, Wrong Number!: The Abuse of Measurement The shenanigans that go on with the data, just to get an interesting result ... and thus a published paper, are disturbingly like the GW fiasco. These books definitely make you read these "Eating X helps with disease Y" kinds of headlines with a jaded eye. That said, I think in this instance, the fact that alcohol thins the blood, (which many drugs prescribed to people at risk of heart disease also do) lends credence that there is causation here.