Looks like we are stuffed. Who would have thought that excessive consumption of alcohol would lead to a lower about of work getting done, unless of course that work was in fact consuming alcohol.
"After years of argument over the roles of factors like genius, sex and dumb luck, a new study shows that something entirely unexpected and considerably sudsier may be at play in determining the success or failure of scientists beer.
According to the study, published in February in Oikos, a highly respected scientific journal, the more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely the scientist is to publish a paper or to have a paper cited by another researcher, a measure of a paper's quality and importance."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/...amp;oref=slogin
"After years of argument over the roles of factors like genius, sex and dumb luck, a new study shows that something entirely unexpected and considerably sudsier may be at play in determining the success or failure of scientists beer.
According to the study, published in February in Oikos, a highly respected scientific journal, the more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely the scientist is to publish a paper or to have a paper cited by another researcher, a measure of a paper's quality and importance."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/...amp;oref=slogin
