Falls Over In Amazement (and not from the booze)

Should one be surprised that doctors are complaining that government guidelines on the daily amount of alcohol which can be safely consumed is based on numbers “plucked out of the air”. That the numbers are of the “think of a” sort is not surprising. The much quoted “Five A Day” campaign has no basis in science, it’s just a product of an advertising agency working for fruit ‘n’ vegetable producers. That the doctors have taken so long to realize that the numbers are made up says nothing reassuring about the medical profession.