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Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by webmobdev on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:11PM (#30981202)
What I remember reading in the papers long ago is that drinking wine occasionally was good for you. Can anybody tell me if this study invalidates that too?
Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by seadan83 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @08:07PM (#30983087)
That study failed to split non-drinkers from those that quit drinking.

"It’s now widely understood that a lot of this data could be flawed: people abstaining from alcohol may be doing so because they’re unwell, rather than becoming unwell because they’re abstaining"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191021-is-wine-good-for...

Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by jjtheblunt on Monday April 11, 2022 @03:06AM (#30985581)
You could tell that by reading the article.
Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by robwwilliams on Sunday April 10, 2022 @06:37PM (#30982420)
Context needed: an individual’s environment, age, genetics, and pathogen exposure all needed to make any useful prediction (not that we yet have sufficient data to build the predictive model). Precision medicine is a mirage on the horizon. The population-based recommendations are crude tools.
Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by xboxnolifes on Sunday April 10, 2022 @06:56PM (#30982576)
There have already been tons of papers that read one way or the other on that topic. Pick the one you want to believe.
Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by seadan83 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @08:10PM (#30983102)
Picking the one you want to believe is not science and is how we arrived to a place where the meaning of "fact" is not shared. There is a lot of bad science out there, so picking the one you want to believe is akin to saying find any flawed study and choose to believe that over anything else (which is a shame if the person does not realize the flaws in the study, that would seem to be little more than corporate manipulation)
Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by xboxnolifes on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:49AM (#30989566)
I didn't realize a /s was needed for something so obvious.

The point is that all of the available papers contradict each other, and no matter which ones I could provide, someone will come out of the woodworks to point to the others. So, I ask those who like wine to continue drinking it, or if they don't enjoy it to not, and stop asking about wine papers if they aren't going to look for the papers themselves, as the result is just going to be biased by who responds anyway.

At the end of the day, those who like wine aren't going to stop drinking it when they find out it has minor negative effects. That much should have been obvious considering getting drunk is literally poisoning yourself.

Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by ilaksh on Sunday April 10, 2022 @05:42PM (#30982009)
You mean like, someone else read it for you?
Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by webmobdev on Monday April 11, 2022 @07:18PM (#30996459)
- Not everybody knows how to read a scientific paper, especially when there are so many conflicting studies. I wanted to hear from someone who better understands this subject than me.

- Wine, in general, has much lower alcohol content, and so some don't even consider it as an alcoholic drink.

Re:Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption... by ilaksh on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:42PM (#31005918)
As someone who better understands this subject than you, wine has plenty of alcohol, on average 10%, much more than beer. You don't need a scientific study for that.