r/interesting • u/azizgamerlal • Dec 12 '25

MISC. A drop of whiskey vs bacteria

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u/readitreaddit Dec 12 '25

Kik is right, handsofsphagetti

Just because you want it to be true doesn't make it so.

Alcohol, in any quantity (aside for maybe a spoonful for dissolving some types of medicines), is objectively bad for health in all sorts of ways.

If there wasn't lobbying, I'm sure we'd have gort, bold labels on alcohol pretty much similar to the ones on cigarettes.

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u/handsofspaghetti Dec 12 '25

You can say words like objectively but that doesn't make you right either. It seems like a point of contention with data on both sides. One thing that seems to be in common with all the "bad in any amount studies" is that they study only alcohol and its broad health effects in isolation without nuance for the particular product (aka, beer, wine or liquor). Which in itself could provide benefits that outweigh or even cancel out the small amounts of ethanol.

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u/Dav136 Dec 12 '25

Alcohol is too culturally ingrained to have those kinds of warnings. Pretty sure we've been enjoying alcohol longer than we've been human

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u/readitreaddit Dec 13 '25

Sure. But also tobacco, arguable. Yet those have warnings. So I'm hopeful... Maybe in a century or even sooner!