My new piece in @observer about #diabetes and why #alcohol won't helphttp://observer.com/2017/08/alcohol-diabetes-prevention-cure-study/ …
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It turns out that yet another observational study was blown out of all proportion. It's the same crap as thishttp://observer.com/2017/05/socio-economic-status-alcohol-moderate-drinking/ …
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See, it's potentially possible that alcohol could stave off diabetes. I've been told by epidemiologists that it's incredibly unlikely
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So it's "possible". But it goes against quite a bit of established literature
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So when people say "drinking could stop diabetes", what they are really saying is "I don't understand correlation and causation"
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It's time for journalists to stop writing up observational research as absolute fact. It just isn't.
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Any study like this comes with hundreds of caveats. Scientists expect people to understand this. People rarely do
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And then it gets blown out of all proportion in the media. Is it the journalists' fault? Partially. Is it the scientists' fault? Partially
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It's a system that rewards scientists for saying things that are only partially true and journalists who misinterpret them
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One of the most fundamental challenges in health & research communication. Think this comic from PHD comics sums up the problem u describepic.twitter.com/3GUdXlZ3Ae
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Absolutely. Can't really blame any one person, but it's a system that rewards bad reporting at every stage
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