Alcohol consumption has been associated with excessive mortality from cancer for more than a century
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What advice would you give to people thinking about choosing your profession?🔥
And that’s why it’s always important to know the study that backs the statistics. Statistics do not speak for themselves studies speak for statistics.
Vodka Is the best cure for buzzkill
😂 love it
I like to mix it with redbull, might as well get those wings.
I dont drink at all, i never liked it Never started
Yet somehow the oldest mfs ever drink whiskey, eat bacon & smoke cigs daily.
Freakonomics level analysis here. This is great work!
Definitely have to raise my eyebrow at this guy. You lose so much credibility when you go straight to “oh its a systemic mischaracterization”. Im not gonna try and claim drinking is good for you, but let my propose a counter argument. Cigarettes for quite a while now have been known to be unhealthy. Withdrawal can be brutal. Yet even if youve been a lifelong smoker, the health benefits of quitting are better fkr you in the long run, even though people who quit would appear to get worse at first. So I have to raise an eyebrow at the logic that they knew stopping cigarettes made you worse at first due to withdrawal but better down the line, but then when it comes to drink, theres no way alcohol works the same? The logic just doesnt add up
This man is grossly misleading to say the least. He’s comparing smoking cigarettes to drinking alcohol. You can’t die from quitting cigarettes cold turkey. Every day people die from quiting alcohol the same way.. 😂 this man is a huge joke
Super interesting and makes complete sense when you explain it
What’s the number one leading cause of death? Listening to people in suits?
Heart disease
This is why you never look at a statistic in a vacuum. The issue is articles that have studies to back them use a couple graphs (which in fairness probably were accurate) to make a claim about something. There are far, far too many factors in everything to be able to put a phenomenon on a graph with a single identified cause
Now tell me you believe global warming
In observational studies we use adjustment models to find evidence for effects.
In randomised control studies we randomise over all variables and isolate signal from noise.
The statistical methods (mathematics) behind scientific research is interesting.
Birth has been found to be 100% fatal…
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My uncle drank his whole life. He was not an alcoholic, he never got drunk, but he would have a beer every day when he was done with work and several beers when he watched football. He also had wine with supper every night. He lived to be 98 and his only health issues were caused by his advanced age.
Doesn’t mean it was a healthy lifestyle, but rather your uncle just happened to live a long life. Good on him tho
There’s also people that smoke cigarettes their entire life and live long. The point is that overall it’s poison to the body. Wine has some benefits but overall alcohol is going to cause more issues than benefits.
Ok Anecdote Andy….
This is why the discussion section is just a scientist’s opinion and biases. This guy is making a lot of inferences and assumptions, which of course is done a lot with the counter argument to this
All drugs, alcohol, and tobacco should be legalized and controlled by the government. Safe access to substances is the first step to mitigating harm. Harm reduction, along with suppport, and public de-stigmatization, helps addicts…. dehumanizing people who are suffering, doesnt help.
Закусывают трупами, вот и мрут.
I have an intense urge to buy trainers, looking at that graph
Drinking ages u faster too
My father had 2 glasses of scotch every evening after dinner, he lived to 101
@@Allegheny500 I mean like wrinkles, did he look younger? Alcohol gives mad wrinkles
@@cherry7000 Drinking or not once you get to around 70 there is going to be wrinkles.
@Allegheny500 must I break everything down? When you start drinking regularly, you tend to start looking older than you are. Alcohol dehydration is detrimental to the skin and beyond. I don’t know when yr dad started drinking but was it at 70? I doubt it.
@@cherry7000He started in the Navy at 18, the wrinkles started around 70, and as an aside heavy coffee drinking will dehydrate you worse. People are different, some are allergic to alcohol, some get addicted, others feel no effect. All I and others in the comments are saying is this “study” seems flawed. Don’t take it personally.
Buzzkill, got my fill, never have to take a pill 🤗
Wouldnt that have been controlled for? Brewers yeast is quite nutritious
I wonder about kombucha, Jun and kvass, which have minor amounts of alcohol (typically <1%) but many potential beneficials in them.
“potential”