I don't think it's necessarily about religion. I have nonreligious, very sciency type friends who are simply opposed to drinking. Even after I show them the stu

I don't think it's necessarily about religion. I have nonreligious, very sciency type friends who are simply opposed to drinking. Even after I show them the studies, they do as you describe, move goalposts and desperately try to justify their beliefs in some type of science. It's just a morality/cultural issue. They see people drinking & driving, excessively drinking and being violent, depicted IRL and in movies, and want to distance themselves from these bad types of people that drink alcohol.