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That study defines "moderate" as 1-2 drinks a day, if you look at the chart in the article you linked, >6 drinks per day had higher mortality rate.

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It's >15 drinks per week, not per day. Let's call that 3/day, which is significantly better for your health than not drinking at all.

[a8da6b0c91d]

IQ and alcohol consumption are highly correlated. IQ and health & longevity and highly correlated. I think even a lot of alcohol in the context of a good diet is benign, but I'm skeptical about the health benefit claims. I think they're just not properly controlling for other factors like intelligence. Somebody needs to run the data controlling for IQ.