Good parsing of headlines/stats. I'm the child of an alcoholic, so all the feels about how this drug gets to be legal while millions do time for small amounts of pot but... despite the recent headlines, little evidence that occasional drinkers are at some worrisome health risk.https://twitter.com/d_spiegel/status/1032878415450386433 …
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So the narrative oscillates between panics/prohibition and hands off my X. You see this in opioid discussions too: it is of obvious huge benefit to chronic pain patients who would be gravely harmed by denial and it also facilitates catastrophic harm to those who abuse/misuse it.
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It would be so much better if more people, journalists especially, got in the weeds of what the findings/stats actually mean, and that we had the real discussion: how do you preserve benefits/freedom while protecting those at risk of harm? Topic after topic falls into this trap.
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Alcohol causes damage/hurt around the world and competes with tobacco in harm; and little doubt it is also a cancer risk. On the other hand, the occasional drinkers of milder forms don't seem to be facing a huge risk. That's not a neat a story, and not a good headline! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Plus I think it falls into the trap of big numbers. With 7 billion people on Earth, pretty much everything will have "significant number of cases", so case-count should be deemed irrelevant unless actual statistic aberration is proven.
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Not much of an alcohol drinker, given my late alcoholic dad as a cautionary tale, but I also think it's overstated. Either way, I'm smack dab in the middle between: 1) People drink too much alcohol. 2) Drinking alcohol is okay. So maybe keep drinking, but just drink less...
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