[ale] OT (way out there): switching from beer to wine....
Irv Mullins
irvm at ellijay.com
Tue Nov 12 16:01:44 EST 2002
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 02:58 pm, you wrote:
> certainly you should always take this sort of thing with some skepticism.
>
> but there was a control group in this study:
> "People who had just a glass of wine a day had a lower risk of dementia
> than people who drank no wine at all,"
>
> the people who drank no wine are the control.
No doubt the skeptics will throw this out because it wasn't a 'double-blind
study'.
We'll probably never see a definitive study, because it's pretty hard for
people to _not_ know if what they're drinking is water or wine.
Irv
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