[antiverse]

This thread is seriously bonkers.

When we were children, our elders were well aware of a link between alcohol and cancer (among other failures like cirrhosis) because their elderly friends would pass away from one or more of these. It was, albeit unscientifically, established that there does exist a strong enough correlation to warrant warning children about it. To this day, none of us needed a study for any of this. What happened?

To see HN stand up for Big Alcohol and twist this study with whataboutism and other nonsensical detractions is just plain morbid.

[acuozzo]

> To this day, none of us needed a study for any of this.

I guess this means I should stop cracking my knuckles then since my elders told me doing so would give me arthritis in my hands.

I mean, shit, by this logic I should wear a 3M respirator 24/7 since the elders of my elders (of my elders…) believed "bad air" and "foul smells" were the cause of The Black Death.

No. Studies. Needed.

Right?