Research of Dr. Grim

[Aaron Adler <cadlerun@>]

I bet many of you say the article in New York Times[1] this week about 
something that has finally been linked to successfully publishing lots 
of papers. What is it? Genius? No. Sex? No. Luck? No. It's beer.

This grim news is the research of Dr. Grim. Here's the key result:

"scientific performance steadily declined with increasing beer 
consumption across the board, from scientists who primly sip at two or 
three beers over a year to the sort who average knocking back more than 
two a day"

Scientists have reacted as follows:
  - I know of a few counter examples to that
  - "devastating"
  - their just "drowning their sorrows"

The paper is called "A possible role of social activity to explain 
differences in publication output among ecologists." [2]

The kicker is (if you make it to the end of the article, which is 
probably about the same number of people that get to the end of these 
messages) Dr. Grim has no plans to personally reduce his consumption of 
beer --  he drinks 12 beers in a night. Why? Because he "likes it."

Before you get too worried, another study has just come out in Alcohol & 
Alcoholism. Wine is worse for the brain than beer. [3]

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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/18beer.html
[2] 
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16551.x
[3] 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/wine-is-worse-for-the-brain-than-beer-research-finds-796604.html

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