Like her predecessor, our chief medical officer is promoting quackery and corruption, wrapping it in a bow and pretending that it is science.
Tough new guidelines issued on alcohol have cut recommended drinking limits and say there is no such thing as a safe level of drinking.
The UK’s chief medical officers say new research shows any amount of alcohol can increase the risk of cancer.
The new advice says men and women who drink regularly should consume no more than 14 units a week – equivalent to six pints of beer or seven glasses of wine.
Pregnant women should not drink at all.
This is simply the latest salvo from the new puritans and prohibitionists. Let’s get real here. People have been consuming alcohol for thousands of years. They will continue to do so. The idea of “no safe limit” is such obvious bullshit only the prohibitionists and their useful idiots will believe it. There comes a point when they jump so far over the shark, their extremism is exposed. The “no safe limits” nonsense is one such.
Life is a terminal disease. We are all going to die someday. Some sooner than others. Our lifestyle choices will impact on this. Some people decide that risky behaviours are worth it for the short-term gain. Whether that is dangerous sports, puffing away on a cigarette or quaffing a single malt is up to them and should always remain so. It is no business of anyone else – certainly not the government.
If anyone still believes that the state has a place in educating people about risky behaviour so that they may make informed choices, this latest piece of prohibitionist propaganda should put paid to it. For, this is not information, it is not science, it is nothing more than corrupt lies and misinformation put about by twisted, purse-lipped freedom-hating puritans who detest the idea that other people might be enjoying themselves. Accurate information helps people make informed decisions. This piece of blatant, corrupt junk does nothing of the sort. People will, rightly, treat it with the contempt is so richly deserves.
Update:
France has the best government guidance on alcohol consumption. It has none.
Precisely. You can replace drinking with smoking, eating, sugar, salt and all the other obsessions that plague the public health quangocracy.
“Whether that is dangerous sports, puffing away on a cigarette or quaffing a single malt…”
Or breathing oxygen – that causes cancer too!!!!eleventyone!! Perhaps we should be encouraging people to stop breathing it? Or at least a lot less – I could suggest a group of people to whom I could readily recommend such a course of action…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2909046/How-oxygen-air-trigger-lung-cancer-Rates-disease-decrease-higher-altitudes.html
Yes – I know, DM – but if the bansturbators can be selective over their sources, and the misinterpretation of them, why can’t we?
As for mortality- most of it is preordained in our genes. Some folk are protected from ‘life’s activities’ due to a favourable combination of DNA. And of course, there is a bit of ‘chance’ and good luck thrown in for good measure. Folk who live to 100 are no more virtuous than the rest of us and smoke, drink and engage in consuming red meat, just like the rest of us. Take heart and enjoy yourself and take no heed of the ‘scientific killjoys’. As for the safe drinking: I would like to see how the ‘science gurus’ came across their ‘safe units’ using peer reviewed data obtained from respectable scientific journals. Seems to me it is plucked from thin air and is a measure to control us proles and probably to extort revenue. We have the same sort of crap in New Zealand, however, as the Kiwis drink like fishes they, quite rightly, take no notice of government bollocks.
Simon Jenkins
I really can’t believe this:- a common sense article in The Guardian with which I mostly agree. I must go and lie down in a dark room.