A New Attempt To Link Alcohol To Cancer Is Nothing To Fear

World Health Organization continues its deceptive fear mongering

For some time now, the news has bombarded us with the message that alcohol consumption contributes to the risk of contracting seven different kinds of cancer. That number will soon be increased to 8 different kinds of cancer with Pancreatic being the addition.

The World Health Organization (WHO), which, in hysterical fashion, announced two years ago that “no level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health”, has now announced that there is a “modest but significant association between alcohol intake and risk of pancreatic cancer.”

I don’t know what “modest but significant association” means. And neither do you. But that’s the point. This isn’t a matter of the WHO sloppily using vague and imprecise language in its press release. It’s a matter of the WHO putting the words “cancer” and “alcohol” next to each other to create a climate of fear disconnected from the reality of the actual risk.

I’ve written about this strategy previously when I calculated the ultimate risk of dying from the seven types of cancer said to be associated with alcohol consumption. For example, women who drink two glasses of wine per day increase their chance of dying from liver cancer from .32% to .36%. The incredibly small risk of a woman dying from liver cancer if they drink two glasses of wine per day is NEVER mentioned by those who want to tell us that alcohol causes cancer. They never mention just how small this increased risk is. It’s better just to put the word “Cancer” next to the word “Alcohol” to create the desired fear.

The recent news on pancreatic cancer falls into the same deceptive category.