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Re:Alcohol is a direct cause of seven ​​forms of cancer, fin... by jmartini on Friday July 22, 2016 @02:13PM (#12145496)
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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Re:Alcohol is a direct cause of seven ​​forms of cancer, fin... by gkya on Friday July 22, 2016 @02:33PM (#12145664)
The title of this article is also helpful: «Study ‘proves alcohol causes cancer’. The problem? There wasn’t a study.»
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Re:Alcohol is a direct cause of seven ​​forms of cancer, fin... by thefastlane on Friday July 22, 2016 @02:47PM (#12145781)
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

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