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Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by NickBusey on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:46AM (#30010311)
This sounded wrong to me, so I did a simple search. This study from the NIAA of the NIH seems to suggest what you said is incorrect. https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...

Most Americans do drink.

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Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by mindcrime on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:54AM (#30010452)
Most Americans do drink.

That doesn't contradict what the person you are replying to said. They said most Americans drink "little or no" alcohol, not "no alcohol".

Why is it that on the Internet almost everyone seems to silently remove/ignore qualifiers like that, and treat everything as a binary dichotomy???

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Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World He... by happytoexplain on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:58AM (#30010540)
Yeah, currently there are three people using the same data to "disprove" the parent, which is baffling to me. As I said in another reply, 45% of people had no alcohol in the past month, so "most Americans drink a little or not at all" seems plausible, or at least not disproved by this data. I understand disagreeing with that sentiment (there are plenty of rational arguments that most people drink more than "a little"), but why harm the image of one's motivation by purposefully omitting critical details from the post one is responding to?
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