Moderate alcohol consumption inversely correlated with all-cause mortality

My roommate recently sent me a review article that LW might find interesting:

Conclusions: Low levels of alcohol intake (1-2 drinks per day for women and 2-4 drinks per day for men) are inversely associated with total mortality in both men and women. Our findings, while confirming the hazards of excess drinking, indicate potential windows of alcohol intake that may confer a net beneficial effect of moderate drinking, at least in terms of survival.

Personal observation says that LWers tend not to drink very much or often. Perhaps that should change, to the degree suggested by the article?

Full article here.

My roommate recently sent me a review article that LW might find interesting:

Conclusions: Low levels of alcohol intake (1-2 drinks per day for women and 2-4 drinks per day for men) are inversely associated with total mortality in both men and women. Our findings, while confirming the hazards of excess drinking, indicate potential windows of alcohol intake that may confer a net beneficial effect of moderate drinking, at least in terms of survival.

Personal observation says that LWers tend not to drink very much or often. Perhaps that should change, to the degree suggested by the article?

Full article here.

Your reply applies (at least) equally well to the following argument: all plants have green leaves; roses have green leaves; therefore roses are plants. In both cases your reply would defend an obviously silly inference pattern by pointing to one instance in which it leads to a true conclusion. (Although in your case the inference actually predicts that hospital-provided medical care has a negative marginal effect on health, not a neutral one.)

Not really. Illness is a proximally transitive property; being in the same room as an ill person can, indeed, make you ill. It only leads to support of silly inference patterns if you disregard the actual meaning of the words used in the logical statement.