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Re:Alcohol is a direct cause of seven ​​forms of cancer, fin... by eevilspock on Friday July 22, 2016 @02:40PM (#12145713)
How do you know that? Do you have some data on alcohol consumption since BC, and how broadly it was consumed by the world population (i.e. was it only the tiny fraction of wealthy people)? Do you have some data that shows "cancer epidemics is recent thing"?

Even if you have this data, have you eliminated all the other variables? E.g. longer lifespans may account for higher cancer rates.

Re:Alcohol is a direct cause of seven ​​forms of cancer, fin... by gkya on Friday July 22, 2016 @02:49PM (#12145797)
Dionysios is the greek god for among other things, wine. He's been divinised for bringing wine to greece. It was invented in the northern caucasus 6 thousand years ago. If you ever read any classical literature or antique philosophy, you'll have a reference for how wine was consumed in the antiquity. And if you want to see how much the antiques lived, see Diogenes Laerteos.
Re:Alcohol is a direct cause of seven ​​forms of cancer, fin... by eevilspock on Friday July 22, 2016 @02:58PM (#12145859)
Most literature until modern times was written by, about and for the wealthy. Diogenes Laertius was no where near a common person. Nor was any philosopher for that matter. I'm kind of shocked that you consider antique philosophy a window into how the vast majority of people lived in the past.

Again, show me the data.

Re:Alcohol is a direct cause of seven ​​forms of cancer, fin... by gkya on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:05PM (#12146384)
Go find the data. I'm not going to make archaeological research to convince you.