[PontifexMinimus]

Note that a 568 ml pint of beer of 5% strength is by this definition 2 drinks.

4 pints over a week is basically nothing, and if they are saying it causes ill health, I don't believe them. When I was a student I drank 10 times that amount, so did many of my friends, without any apparent ill effects.

[satvikpendem]

> Note that a 568 ml pint of beer of 5% strength is by this definition 2 drinks.

Yes it is. I can always tell the difference between drinking a can of it versus a pint, it definitely does feel like twice the effects.

> if they are saying it causes ill health, I don't believe them

I mean you can believe whatever you want but the scientific consensus is that any amount of alcohol is bad for you [0]. Just because you and your friends didn't have ill effects does not mean that it was actually good or even neutral for you all, and statistically and biologically it's been shown to not be so either.

[0] https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...

[anon7725]

There’s probably no safe limit of driving a car or using a step ladder.

Alcohol has been with us since the beginning and will probably be with us until the end. The point of these studies should be to make people aware of the risks and motivate them to make appropriate choices.

But part of the understanding of risk should be that there is a floor below which something else will most assuredly kill you. Is that floor 10 drinks per week? 2? Who knows.