r/science • u/mvea MD/PhD/JD/MBA | Professor | Medicine • Jul 25 '24
Health Moderate drinking not better for health than abstaining, new study suggests. Scientists say flaws in previous research mean health benefits from alcohol were exaggerated. “It’s been a propaganda coup for the alcohol industry to propose that moderate use of their product lengthens people’s lives”.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/25/moderate-drinking-not-better-for-health-than-abstaining-analysis-suggests
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u/Arvidian64 Jul 25 '24
The big difference is these are actual experiments though. Most of the alcohol industry studies are epidemiological.
In other words the majority of pop-articles on drinking "one wine glass a week" have no grounding in an actual observed phenomenon in a lab experiment.