Published in ‘The Lancet’ — a journal that has shown a worrisome trend in sensationalizing unremarkable research — a new paper concludes (and advertises prominently in its abstract) that consuming an additional 100 grams of alcohol per week (roughly an additional one drink per day) increases a person’s risk of stroke, coronary disease, heart failure, fatal hypertensive disease, and fatal aortic aneurysm.
The media, as usual, put the results into proper context, discussing the limitations of the study and telling people not to be overly concerned.
No study is required for this. We all know that absolutely everything in Heaven and Earth we find enjoyable is bad for us.
covfefe
anything with a;
“sin” tax
carbon tax
manufactured food
served food
Apparently I died years ago and no one told me.
And as we see on an ongoing basis, the media loves to report on “A Recent study says……” without disclosing who funded the study, which upon finding out the source, is a case of starting with a conclusion, then backward engineering their study to reinforce their confirmation bias.
Studies like meat is bad for you, funded by PETA, etc.
Too cynical to pay attention or give any credence to any self-serving studies that are patently misleading
Right, this has the same unassailable ring of truth as a headline:
“CBC Has Learned…”
” – will shorten your life by THIRTY WHOLE MINUTES!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please, somebody with some sorta’ med-degree, how on Earth could they measure that? – and some sorta’ psych degree, how somebody being human (?) him/herself, could arrogate the gravitas to make such a profoundly nonsensical claim? – and nobody (’cause I’m not interested), why anybody would care? What a crock…
They take a bunch of numbers, dump them into a statistical package, click on buttons until they get
numbers they like, then they take what the computer spits out seriously.
Never trust a computer.
I can almost always rely on a computer to tell me what the programmer wanted it to tell me. But programmers are human so their programs don’t always work the way they think they will.
Yep, definite use of the “Trojan Number”:
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/trojan_number.htm
I used to think that an infinite number of monkeys, typing on an infinite number of keyboards…was a myth.
actually Steve, when one does a rigorous analysis of the ‘infinite monkeys’ one finds out just how much time is req’d to cough up the Works of Shakespeare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
look under Probabilities.
So that’s why PM Dressup and Minister Moroneau are raising the tax on it every year … forever. Because they care so much aboot us.
Problem #8: It is now necessary to convince the population that smoking DOPE is “better” for you than alcohol. After all … it is “natural”. Oh, wait … so is alcohol. OK … then you’ll DIEEEEEE sooner!!! Next: wino-face (similar to smokers-face). Then: low sperm count … that’s the ticket! too much wine lowers your sperm count … while DOPE makes you a SEX GOD (well, that’s what you “think”, when you’re stoned and flaccid).
worrying about this crap will kill you faster than what they are saying will kill you.
That about nails it.
Remember when The Lancet reported 650,000 deaths in Iraq from the war?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_casualties
I believe they are still collecting funds from the UN to … search … for the mass graves dug, hurriedly by the US GI’s and covered over in the desert … {sarc}
Gawd … you had to remind me on the day that I just passed our local roadside DISPLAY … that STILL haven’t been declared a public nuisance by our feckless local city council members – and TORN DOWN. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/20808
NOTE: The LEFTISTS LOONS (… I know them, and they ARE mental patients) who set-up this BUSH-bashing attraction STOPPED adding crosses in 2011. Hmmmm … can’t be adding any Obama WAR DEAD crosses, now can we?
I’ll see your -30 minutes and raise you +2628000.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/5243531/Half-a-glass-of-wine-a-day-can-add-five-years-to-your-life.html
–Bad News
well now, I gave her a glass of wine, she got a bit frisky and damn near screwed me to death!!! So that claim may not hold water!!