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The alcohol industry gave the government money to prove moderate drinking is safe

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Over the weekend, the New York Times published a bombshell report on alarming ties between the alcohol industry and the National Institutes of Health. Specifically, five alcohol companies helped fund — and potentially shaped the design of — a 7,800-person randomized controlled trial overseen by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a center at the NIH. The trial is supposed to answer the long-simmering question of whether moderate drinking truly reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.

The most shocking detail in the story: The researchers behind the study reportedly persuaded alcohol industry executives to fund them by arguing the trial “represents a unique opportunity to show that moderate alcohol consumption is safe and lowers risk of common diseases” — before they had even enrolled their first patient.

The study “is not public health research — it’s marketing,” Michael Siegel, a professor of community health sciences at Boston University School of Public Health, told Times reporter Roni Caryn Rabin.

The story is, without a doubt, troubling and raises many questions about research integrity at NIH. For now, the agency is investigating the debacle.

And several questions linger: Why would one of the world’s elite publicly funded scientific institutions turn to the alcohol industry for fundraising? If it needed the money, why did it seemingly fail to set up an adequate firewall between the industry and the researchers? Why were the researchers promising conclusions before starting the study?

But it’s also, to some degree, business as usual in science today.

Dozens of industry-sponsored studies have shaped our perceptions of food and beverages, from the blueberries we eat for breakfast to the red wine we drink with dinner and dark chocolate we snack on at night. This trial again shows “the great prevalence of the belief that corporate funding has no influence on research,” despite reams of evidence to the contrary, said New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle.


https://www.vox.com/science-and-hea.../health-effects-alcohol-moderate-drinking-nih


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/health/nih-alcohol-study-liquor-industry.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
 

TeeJay

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I'd argue alcohol although hardly something you should partake in to be far less evil than tobacco or marijuana
 

managee

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I'd argue alcohol although hardly something you should partake in to be far less evil than tobacco or marijuana
Why marijuana?
 

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First thought is it's pretty big of the alcohol industry to fund an independent study. Sadly they shot themselves in the foot. Even if the study says there are benefits to moderate alcohol consumption (as the heart and stroke foundation has been saying for years re: red wine), the results are biased. Same with a couple reports I read about vaping, they said it's nearly as bad as smoking. Shockingly those studies were funded by big tobacco... any other study has found no/minimal health risks.
 

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Molson and its competitors will go broke if drinking in
moderation becomes the norm.
 

Goodoer

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Alcohol is brutal... I have cut all other booze off, but cannot shake beer. My brain says no, but I keep on drinking it - and lots of it. Besides my lust for pussy, I have no other vices.
 

Mable

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The alcohol industry is only a tad less evil than the
tobacco industry.
Interesting comment. Why are the industries evil? It seems to me the marketers are the ones that might be characterized as evil; they are the humans and responsible for advertising the products. And why not include the marketers associated with the sugar industry? Sugar, regarding health, may well be as bad, or worse than alcohol or tobacco. It would be interesting to know which industry is more of a drain on the health system. I wonder when will people just assume responsibility for themselves and stop catering to these industries, and others. After all, it is not like we do not know the negative side effects of these substances. It seems to be missing the point to blame those who are capitalizing on the stupidity/carelessness/choice of those who partake in the various products. Hey, if you want to kill yourself....do not blame others. Full disclosure: I do not work in or with, nor am I associated in any way with these industries, and am not an advertiser or marketer.
 
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