Science: How bad could one beer be?

How dangerous could one beer be?

(Howtown) Welcome to HOWTOWN! A small but mighty team of two (Joss Fong and Adam Cole) digs into the evidence behind commonly held "facts" and claims in the news.

CHAPTERS

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:22 Drinking appears beneficial
• 03:54 The first mistake
• 05:00 Hank's Razor
• 07:34 Rethinking drinking
• 08:53 A failed trial
• 10:43 A new genetic tool
• 13:04 How risky is drinking?
• 14:50 How dangerous is alcohol?
  

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SELECTED SOURCES

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  How much alcohol is healthy and safe to drink?

  1981 Bay Area study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7258861
• Association between daily alcohol intake and risk of all-cause mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
• Lancet mega-study of 195 countries thelancet.com/journals/la...
• Kiran Biddinger’s mendelian randomization study of cardiovascular effects jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
• FULL SOURCE LIST: docs.google.com/document...

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• Joss Fong, Adam Cole, Howtown, Jan. 10, 2025; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly