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by jmartini 3618 days ago
https://health.spectator.co.uk/study-proves-alcohol-causes-c...

"It’s a comment piece. It doesn’t contain any new research, nor does it contain statistical analysis of previous research. It’s not a meta-analysis or a systematic review. It is a short essay in the ‘For Debate’ section of the journal in which one woman gives her opinion about whether correlation equals causation when it comes to the epidemiological evidence on alcohol and cancer."

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The title of this article is also helpful: «Study ‘proves alcohol causes cancer’. The problem? There wasn’t a study.»
it was a study. the abstract explains its methods, results, and conclusions. it has 44 references.

folks, just go read it for yourself, the DOI is: 10.1111/add.13477