Beer Drinking Scientist debunks NY Times article

austinpoet writes: "In a recent NY Times article (and Slashdot Story), it was reported that scientists who drink beer were less successful than other scientists. In fact, there was a published paper to that extent. Chris Mack, Gentleman Scientist and Beer drinker, has analyzed the paper and found it is severely flawed. From his analysis "The discovered linear relationship between beer consumption and scientific output had a correlation coefficient (R-squared) of only about 0.5 — not very high by my standards, though I suspect many biologists would be happy to get one that high in their work."

Beer is safe for science once more!"