The Medical Express website reports on the revealing work of Dr. Tim Stockwell at the University of Victoria’s Department of Addiction. It shows an amazing amount of methodological fudging in studies that suggest moderate drinking is good for you. These studies — dozens of them — compare life expectancy among such drinkers with abstainers but forget to mention that the abstainer group is full of people who are essentially fatally ill. They’ve stopped drinking because of their critical condition. Take those ill people out of the abstainer group and it is clear that the best results are achieved by those who simply leave booze alone. Now, have you got a nice Merlot by the glass?
