I read the article...if you look at the one figure, pretty much the whole effect is due to five people who drank a
shitload and never published. Given that Dr. Grim drinks 12beers/day, and according to pubmed has only 2 english publications, I'd guess he is one of these outliers. He does reference an article which investigated the relationship between picking mushrooms and scientific productivity.
Good analysis of this story at Discover's blog.
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I read the article...if you look at the one figure, pretty much the whole effect is due to five people who drank a shitload and never published. Given that Dr. Grim drinks 12beers/day, and according to pubmed has only 2 english publications, I'd guess he is one of these outliers. He does reference an article which investigated the relationship between picking mushrooms and scientific productivity. Good analysis of this story at Discover's blog.