"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Many's The Pint:The New York Times exhalts the benefits of drinking and describes the mechanism of its benefits. It also offers this observation:
Meanwhile, though, other studies were examining the drinking habits of individual subjects, a technique scientists usually consider more reliable than examining population averages. These studies found similar sizable benefits from a few drinks a day among Italian wine-drinkers, Japanese and German beer drinkers, and Americans who preferred hard liquor.
