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The gap in public knowledge about the health impact of moderate drinking is probably no accident. Some experts, like Mark Petticrew, Ph.D.
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, a professor of public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, says the alcohol industry has confused or misled the public for decades by funding or promoting research that seeks to either support the health benefits of drinking, or dispute its harms.
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Carlos OKieffe
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It helps create and support organizations like ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research (formerly called the Medical Advisory Group).
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Between 1972 and 1993, the foundation and its precursor funded more than 500 studies on alcohol, including “one of the first papers suggesting that light drinkers had lower rates of heart disease than abstainers,” Mother Jones reported in 2018.
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Even the idea that beer may be a good postexercise recovery beverage was likely promoted by the alcohol industry, which has invited academics to present research on the subject at conferences,
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