The study I cite, and the link you clearly didn't click, is simply a table of countries sorted by alcohol consumption per capita, showing the massive differences in consumption and types of alcohol consumed between countries as of 2010. That's just the largest factor of many that affect cancer rates due to alcohol consumption.
Also you seem to have the impression I'm trying to disprove the study. As I stated in my original comment I'm not, I simply think they were being hyperbolic in the introduction and that annoyed me. And assuming the UK study is the sole source of that 4% number, then it's wrong and alarmist as presented and should be qualified.
I have no trouble believing their results, which are wholly unrelated to this minor point. And I hope your defensive pedantry about the definition of an allergy makes you feel better, because it doesn't disprove my argument.
> The study I cite, and the link you clearly didn't click, is simply a table of countries sorted by alcohol consumption per capita
I meant the UK study. You say it can't be right because brits drink more. I say that it's clearly already written as a correlation between consumption and cancer rates (because what else would it be?), which indeed makes your point sort of specious.
> defensive pedantry about the definition of an allergy
You're pontificating on the internet about the validity of alcohol studies, yet dismissing a clear fact about the same subject as "pedantry". I think that says all that needs to be said about the argument. LOL, as it were.
Also you seem to have the impression I'm trying to disprove the study. As I stated in my original comment I'm not, I simply think they were being hyperbolic in the introduction and that annoyed me. And assuming the UK study is the sole source of that 4% number, then it's wrong and alarmist as presented and should be qualified.
I have no trouble believing their results, which are wholly unrelated to this minor point. And I hope your defensive pedantry about the definition of an allergy makes you feel better, because it doesn't disprove my argument.