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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

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The saga of the Alcohol Intake & Health Study reveals a lot about how public health and science collide with politics and corporate interests in Washington, DC:

vox.com/health/460086/…
It was fascinating to see how effectively the alcohol industry and its allies commandeered the narrative about these alcohol health studies. People were really treating the one that actually got commissioned first as if it were duplicative and suspect:

vox.com/health/460086/…
“The thing that the alcohol industry fears more than increased taxes is increased knowledge about the risks associated with drinking alcohol, particularly around cancer,” Mike Marshall, CEO of the Alcohol Policy Alliance, who was not involved, told me:

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