Rob’s post inspired me to look up the WHO report on drinking in the USA, and to do some quick calculations. According to this data, American adults (defined as people over 15) consume slightly less than two drinks per day per capita. This is using the standard definition of a drink as 12 ounces of […]
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We can all rest easy now, because in the Cricket, normal business has resumed. An analysis of player performance through the second test at Adelaide can be found here. Dated, obviously, as Mitchell
1. Poetic justice. Shorter: states that had tight-fisted approaches to health care in general and medicaid in particular are worried about the burden imposed by the health care reform law. Longer: &
It’s not suprising how the interests line up, but here’s a good account of why New York’s irrational policy of banning wine sales in grocery stores remains in place.
Following up on Dave’s observations regarding doubts about the health benefits of moderate drinking: (1) The politics of epidemiology are most obvious when you see people treat relatively weak c
The New York Times reports that “some scientists” dispute the link between moderate alcohol consumption and better health on a number of measures. The key is the causality question, of