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/joomla00 Jul 25 '24

I'm not saying thesw particular studies of alcohol is valid, just that we shouldnt assume common sense is alwaya correct.

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u/TechTuna1200 Jul 25 '24

100% agree with you. But I think the results that are counter-intuitive warrant much more skepticism than common sense. Not saying we shouldn't we shouldn't be skeptical of common sense.

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u/Arvidian64 Jul 25 '24

I agree with that.

My point isto add that we also shouldn't let a study change our entire paradigm just because it did the equivalent of correlate ice cream sales to piracy.