Alcohol should have cancer warnings, say researchers pushing to raise awareness
If the medical community wants to gain my trust in their cancer judgements they can start by analyzing the cancer risks of the tens of thousands of chemicals that are used every day in our lives and to which we are exposed.  PFAS, PFOS, insecticides, Purell (which is alcohol, does it cause cancer?), cleaning agents, food additives, tar coal oils, benzene in cigarette lighter butane and gasoline, plasticizers, skin lotions, fragrances, titanium dioxide (used in food, do you like eating metal catalysts?), and all the rest, separately and in combinations.  All ignored for decades.  If they can sequence DNA they can test all these substances for harm.  Don&#x27;t tell me it&#x27;s too difficult, get cracking and you&#x27;ll finish sooner.  And now they want to convince me one particular chemical, widely used for millennia is the cause of a 50% increase in cancer risk?  What&#x27;s that 50% applied to?  A 0.01% base risk?  Where does all the base risk come from and is it greater than the risk from alcohol?  Is it the combination of other chemicals and alcohol that raises cancer risk?  Nuclear fallout from atomic bomb tests is still in everything across the world.  Silica dust from Africa is in our air.  Air pollution from ICE engines is everywhere, layered for decades in the soil along with the lead that used to be in gasoline.  What&#x27;s the risk from that?  Why don&#x27;t we have warning labels on gasoline pumps, and cars, and cities, and plastics?  Should everyone be suing the USA, Russia, and China for above ground nuclear tests and the car makers and oil producers for polluting the air?  There are unavoidable risks from radiation from space and the radiation in the soil and rock varies by locality so where you live may be a bigger determinant of cancer risk than what you drink.  The medical research community just doesn&#x27;t have much credibility when it comes to cancer causes.  Particularly after the Surgeon General did nothing except a few press releases for decades about cigarettes.  Stop doing all those useless, underpowered, non-blind, studies that even researchers don&#x27;t trust and start putting some effort into finding cures and doing real research instead of only looking for drugs that have minor effect and are a burden on the economy. &#x2F;rant