Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption benefits heart health

Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by l0b0 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:29PM (#30981384)

This is really bad editorializing: the original uses "challenges", while this uses "disproves". "Disproves" is not appropriate in any empirical setting, doubly so where there are constant back-and-forth "no, your results are wrong" publications.

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Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by badrabbit on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:33PM (#30981415)

Pardon the ignorance but did you mean non-empirical? If one has empirical evidence to contradict, is that not disproving?

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Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by smegsicle on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:44PM (#30981514)

empirical meaning new statistical data? which is more data, but does not 'disprove' the old data, whereas perhaps a non-empirical analysis of previous studies could theoretically 'disprove' earlier conclusions, by demonstrating how these conclusions were erroneously reached.

at least i think that's how those terms are used..

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Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by badrabbit on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @06:10AM (#31000644)

Empirical as in observational, which means others can reproduce and observe as well?

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Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by smegsicle on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:12PM (#31006338)

empirical data shows that something happened, not that it will happen again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

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Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by l0b0 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:56PM (#30981631)

In mathematics or other formal systems you can disprove a statement. In empirical studies that's a literally impossible bar to meet, indicating infinite certainty.

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