Red Wine Study is Absurd.

If you take notes, like I do, the evening news can be as funny as watching blue collar comedy.  For example, I just finished watching the local evening news on channel five. The head newscaster abruptly woke me from a modest head-nodding by saying,"A recent study concluded that red wine inhibits breast cancer in women." Tell me more. Tell me more. Does it really work? (paraphrased from Summer Fun lyrics for you millennials)


I listened closely. The newscaster continued to explain the facts of the study: The study lasted two months. There were 36 women in the study. They drank red wine for one month, then white wine for another month. The head wine researcher came on in a short video clip and said there will need to be further studies done to confirm this study. The newscaster continued unabashedly, "The researchers do not know how much red wine helps and they do not know for sure if it helps at all."  Whoa Nellie! Did you not begin, Mr. Bigtime newscaster by saying, the study concluded red wine inhibits breast cancer. I grabbed my iPhone determined to send him a text message, but it was too late.


He never heard me ask my question because he was off to a gripping story about a family in Missouri that locked their five children in a wood shed while the family partied in the main house. I do not know what his point was on that story. All he showed me was a picture of the woodshed. No children. No parents. No party. Wait did you interview the parents? Nope. No time, he was off to another story. He began with the words, "And five years ago..." Back to the Cotton bowl.


And the newscaster, gathered his crackerjack team of investigative reporters and said, "Hey team we have a news show to do. It lasts 30 minutes, Let's dig up some news. We can only repeat the temperature forecast so many times. Let's go with the wine and the wood shed for openers."