Josie Ford
A spoonful of sugar?
Should one take sugar in one’s tea? Feedback is mindful of two things about this question. For one, nearly everyone, in the UK especially, considers (or pretends to consider) the question to be of life-and-death importance; and secondly, they consider (or pretend to consider) one answer to be clearly correct.
The Annals of Internal Medicine has published a 280-word item that – let’s be blunt about this – throws a spanner in the teacup. A necessary and welcome spanner.
The item bears the headline “Correction: Tea consumption and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the UK Biobank“. It pertains to a …
