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Overcoming Bias

My health econ students love to hear that our best data suggests moderate drinking is good for health.  New better data continues that trend:

[We study] the association between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality over 20 years among 1,824 older adults…. Controlling only for age and gender, compared to moderate drinkers, abstainers had a more than 2 times increased mortality risk, heavy ...