Media Oversimplifies New Study Linking Alcohol and Breast Cancer. Cabernet may be the smoking gun, but it may not. Is there anything the media doesn’t over-simplify? Isn’t that what we pay them to do?
Can the human body’s reactions to what it ingests and what it’s exposed to over its lifetime be linked to its responses with any certainty? You could spend a bunch of time looking up diseases that you or your neighbor might possibly one day contract, or you could rely on statistics to tell you what’s more likely. Know what I love about this graphic from the National Safety Council? That “Total, Any Cause” is still 1 in 1. Hah, I knew it! Pass the cabernet.
Like my friend Phil always quotes, “If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t. ” Emerson Pugh.
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