These limits come from epidemiologists, so are they scientific? https://www.theregister.com/2007/10/22/drinking_made_it_all_up/ https://www.theregister.com/200

These limits come from epidemiologists, so are they scientific? https://www.theregister.com/2007/10/22/drinking_made_it_all_up/ https://www.theregister.com/2007/10/22/drinking_made_it_all_... > The UK government's guidelines on how much it is safe to drink are based on numbers "plucked out of the air" by a committee that met in 1987. According to The Times newspaper, the limits are not based on any science whatsoever, rather "a feeling that you had to say something" about what would be a safe drinking level. This is all according to Richard Smith, a member of the Royal College of Physicians working party who produced the guidelines. > He told the newspaper that doctors were concerned about mounting evidence that heavy long term drinking does cause serious health problems. But that the committee's epidemiologist had acknowledged at the time that there was "no data", and that "it's impossible to say what's safe and what isn't". UK limits were later lowered, lowered again and then (of course) equalized between men and women even though it was previously recognized that men are physically bigger.