[ale] OT (way out there): switching from beer to wine....

[irvm at ellijay.com (Irv Mullins)]

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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