Scientific Paper: care should be taken when interpreting these results News: DID YOU SAY SCARE???pic.twitter.com/H2N8d8n7Nu
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Scientific Paper: care should be taken when interpreting these results News: DID YOU SAY SCARE???pic.twitter.com/H2N8d8n7Nu
Just reading through the paper now and OMG THIS IS ABSURD
Here's the dose-response curve for fathers. It shos that up to ~3 GLASSES OF WINE A DAY is safe/protective of congenital heart defects 
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So a better headline might be "Men trying to impregnate women should drink up to 3 glasses of wine per day to be safe, not too much or the kid will be worse off" but since that's obviously ridiculous we get the fearmongering instead
I had been looking forward to reading this paper
However, and it may be bias, but only in the vaguest sense, and only on Tuesdays starting with a small ‘t’ but not on Thursday, I could maybe be disappointed. #pleaseunderstand
I don't think it's a bad paper, per se, I just think the relationship is probably much more complex than the ideas captured in the news story Also, the idea that people have to entirely quit drinking if they think they're having a baby in the next 6 mnths is absurd
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