Journalism Treats Each Study as Isolated Point

A central failing of science journalism, especially for epidemiology, is treating every new individual discovery as an isolated point rather than placing it within the accumulated body of evidence; epidemiology relies on strength in numbers, and the alcohol-cancer link is actually strong because the IARC graded it as a cause about 20 years ago and dozens to hundreds of studies plus plausible mechanisms have since confirmed it—context that journalists routinely omit.