Jim Swayze wrote:


> Their illness isn't caused by their
> failure to quaff a couple a day.  It's the other way around,

My point, Jim, is that this statement above is pure speculation. It is only
after the fact that the researchers attempted to speculate about a theory
that would explain their anomalous results. 

In other words it is not a tested hypothesis. It is a mere conjecture, which
you are now stating as fact.

-gts