We are reasonably justified in asserting that alcohol has a causal influence on behavior, even without understanding the exact and complex mechanisms by which it influences the nervous system.
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Apropos nothing specific right now. It just popped into my head. It stems from my general disagreement with the philosophy that you must understand some mechanism really precisely to establish causality between variables.
It's a fake standard they set up to avoid genetics. These people don't follow it anywhere else (=hypocrites), and it has no basis in epistemology either. Turkheimer's dumb blogpost on it exemplifies it very nicely. https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=7257
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Turkheimer asking Twitter for help interpreting a Manhattan plot says a lot about his grasp of the subject:https://twitter.com/SbotGwa/status/1047915047735967744?s=20 …
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