Correlation is not Causation: Alcohol Edition #
June 23rd, 2009 | In Worth Considering
The New York Times ran a story last week to warm a teetotalers heart:
No study, these critics say, has ever proved a causal relationship between moderate drinking and lower risk of death — only that the two often go together. It may be that moderate drinking is just something healthy people tend to do, not something that makes people healthy.