Inducing paranoia pulls in the grant money!
Fed up with this constant Health Nazi paranoia! Here's a new word, that we sensible people have known for years...moderation. Nothing wrong with chocolate, fried brekkie and beer, just not all day, every day!
See the real issue is that with the increase in data availability, fast processing machines and easy to learn analytical languages like R, running studies over data has become easier or at least a lot less time consuming. So whereas it may have taken 3 solid years to run XYZ study not it can be compressed in a matter of months. So now every researcher on an adademic budget is desperate for that wonderful government grant to allow them to spend 3 years doing a study that will on actual fact only take 18 months, in order to get that bonus prize they need to produce some study that frightens the shit out of people or tells them 4 pints on a Friday won't kill them. So we bounce from highs and lows, every health nazi website produces a studies that constantly contradict, the government gets studies that keep the population scaeed and elated in equal measuree and the Daily Fail has a constant stream of moronic health studies to put alongside their "My Grandad was a Top Nazi" stories.
As Rab C Nesbitt said, "Ach! Away an' shite! It's all pish!".