SpectatorUK: A new study has proved that alcohol causes cancer according to the front pages of the Guardian and the i today. The i adds the kicker that the study shows that the ‘supposed health benefits of a glass of red wine are now “irrelevant”‘.
The study was published in the journal Addiction and the only problem with it is that it isn’t a study. It’s a comment piece. It doesn’t contain any new research, nor does it contain statistical analysis of previous research. It’s not a meta-analysis or a systematic review. It is a short essay in the ‘For Debate’ section of the journal in which one woman gives her opinion about whether correlation equals causation when it comes to the epidemiological evidence on alcohol and cancer. MORE
I thought alcohol consumption led to global warming.
The same group is working on a study that proves climate change and the consumption of alcohol causes cancer, impotency, male pattern baldness, attacks on authority figures, slow internet access, bad breath, diabetes and schizophrenia.
Nitwits…
Yeah, sure. That’s why I don’t study much anymore.
Another instance of an author not understand what the fuck she’s writing about, an editor not knowing what the fuck he’s publishing, reporters not knowing what the fuck the difference is between a study and a dear diary entry, and a benighted readership who don’t know the fuck about anything at all. Fuck ’em. Fuck ’em all.
Uncle Al. Have a drink for fuck sake. LOL
Moe Tom – You can’t tell I’ve already had a few? (-:
Uncle Al, I’m used to the voices speaking to me, not for me.
Well said, sir!
Alcohol causes stupidity
If alKohol cozzed kanser Id b a huge tumerrrr
I’m pretty sure at least 85 percent of commenters on this site imbibe now and then….and they certainly aren’t stupid.
Well big deal, alcohol has been here since day 1 and cancer has been here since day 1. Damn if that doesn’t make the connection a proven scientific fact.
Stupid people make me want to drink. They’re everywhere. I drink a lot.
IDD> On the contrary, alcohol kills all old, dead, dried up brain cells and leaves the drunk with only good, solid brain cells. That’s why the drunk is usually brilliant at parties; he can sing, dance, solve problems, debate anyone and win. He holds the family together as the wife is always so proud of him. I got that info in a study I read once.
Bah!
Not being an cave man with a life expectancy of 23 causes cancer.
Having enough leisure time to require an implement(chair)causes cancer.
Not having to eat onions for a month because that’s all you can find causes cancer.
I’m drunk right now.
Studies. Phony research.
Notice all the headlines about lung cancer disappearing now that millions have stopped smoking for over 50 years?
No, there aren’t any. Lung cancer rates have increased as smoking has decreased. So have all the other things attributed to it.
The anti-science left wants us to go back tens of thousands of years to a time of authoritarian socialism and no science.
@Anon, M-Tom and Navigator: It’s Friday…..Cheers🍸🍷🍷🍶🍾🍾👌👍
I’m drunk….forgot my Uncle, Laz and the rest of you guys…Mazel Tov
Maybe if king zero weren’t such a fucktard we’d all save on the alcohol bill.
cheers, bitches.
If this were true, then my father wouldn’t have contracted melanoma. He was a teetotaler. So, just enjoy some drinks if you want.
In the words of Kinky Freidman:
“There was a rumor,
About a tumor…”
😉
oh, I mingle in the musings of a crafty lot. I’m humbled.
@JohnS: Just FYI –
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/rates-drop-for-new-lung-cancer-cases-in-the-us
The rates might be even lower except for the continued increase in industrial fumes, domestic soots derived from coal and fuel oil furnaces, exhausts from internal combustion engines (gasoline and diesel), and carcinogens emitted from asphalt or bituminous road surfaces.
Ode To A Drunk
“It was late last November,
As well as I remember.
I was walking down the street,
With manly pride.
When my heart began to flutter,
And I fell in to the gutter,
And a pig came up and lay down by my side.
As I lay there in the gutter,
My heart still a-flutter,
A lady passing by did hapt to say;
‘You can tell the one who boozes
by the company he chooses,’
And the pig got up and slowly walked away.”
Prof Jim McFatter (1939-2016) Suffern, NY. (An extraordinary man.)
Vietvet, If you get to chose a particular group that fits your narrative you can make almost anything appear to be so.
Cancer rates among different groups fluctuate up and down, taking just one year, 50 years after the substantial drop in smoking rates is meaningless.
Look at the total numbers. The increase over the last 50 years has been very small, but it has been consistent throughout the timeframe.
Don’t forget that the “scientists” that pushed this were claiming that almost 80% of lung cancer was caused by smoking. Fact is that it was closer to 1/2 of one percent.
@JohnS: I fail to see why the CDC and the American Cancer Society would cherry-pick the data to say that lung cancer rates were dropping, when most of their funding comes from people having a disease, not the opposite.
But let’s assume for a moment that your theory is correct. What’s your point? That smoking is not harmful to you? I have personally seen two people die from emphysema, which is primarily caused by smoking, and it’s not a quick or pretty death. More akin to being slowly suffocated. If you smoke long enough, you’ll likely develop emphysema, and I believe I’d rather have lung cancer. It’s faster.
So – unless you’re a smoker and want to feel better about continuing to smoke, I don’t see what difference it makes whether lung cancer rates are dropping or increasing, because smoking increases your chances of getting the disease, and once you have it, statistics will be meaningless to you.
I believe this is what Good Governmenters call “reducing fraud and waste.” After all, if the facts don’t matter, why expend taxpayer monies making them up.