Every time you read in a newspaper that “moderate alcohol intake” is associated with some improved health outcome—less heart disease, less obesity, anything—to gales of delight from the alcohol industry, and, of course, from your friends, who say, “Ooh, well, you see, it’s better for me to drink a little…” as they drink a lot—you are almost certainly witnessing a journalist of limited intellect, overinterpreting a study with huge confounding variables.
