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tonyPick [soylentnews.org] writes:

There's an article on The Spectator about the impact and causes of unreliable public health advice from the government [spectator.co.uk] using the example of recent UK advice on alcohol consumption.

Therefore in order to trust this latest piece of health advice from our Chief Medical Officer, we must believe not only that every previous Chief Medical Officer got it wrong but that every other country in the world has got it wrong. That requires a degree of patriotism that I am unable to summon up, particularly since the current advice bears no relationship whatsoever to the scientific evidence.

This is part of an article which discusses a recent debate on the subject [spectator.co.uk] run by The Spectator and the Institute of Economic Affairs (EIA).

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