The Mayo Clinic is a health organization, but they know that marketing works. And so just in time for the holidays they have a new video out trying to scare us about...the holidays.
It's not about your 100 percent organic dinner, like that every food you eat will have chemicals known to cause cancer in rats, it is about everything you might binge on during the holidays. They allege it causes a condition called "holiday heart."
They are talking about atrial fibrillation, which is often linked to alcohol, along with a lot of other conditions. After smoking and obesity, alcohol is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States. But this derived from a study of 24 patients and has become a common refrain. While that's more than David Perlmutter, MD's study claiming vaccines cause autism, or the David Perlmutter, MD' one that led to the gluten-free craze (n=13), they all share in common that the study participants were hand-picked. They were habitual drinkers who also binged. The pilot study found that people without clinical heart conditions still suffered changes in heart rhythm.
That's all fine, but hyping that up into a syndrome is why we have people being duped into believing stuff about Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, that bacon causes causes, and that vaccines cause autism. Of course there will be effects, alcohol is a Class 1 International Agency for Research on Cancer carcinogen, determined at a time when IARC was a legitimate science body and not a playpen for activist statisticians.
