This is arguably the worst take of a study that I've ever seen No, drinking more definitely won't cure your depression WHAT EVEN IS THIS NONSENSEpic.twitter.com/F68lH83mMr
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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This is arguably the worst take of a study that I've ever seen No, drinking more definitely won't cure your depression WHAT EVEN IS THIS NONSENSEpic.twitter.com/F68lH83mMr
And another Truly Awful Take for this study from the Sunpic.twitter.com/YTP2eUIlVV
This is based on actually quite a small study on people in Sweden which, predictably, did not show that drinking reduced the risk of depressionpic.twitter.com/hAQ42k8Vvy
If nothing else, the absolute risk increase in people who didn't drink at all was 1.6% for depression, which considering that they were also more likely to be in financial distress, uneducated, and have dependents than moderate drinkers ISN'T SURPRISING AT ALL
Also, there's an obvious issue of reverse causality - people with depression are more likely to have quit drinking which means that you literally can't say anything about this finding other than "there was a correlation"
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