An Astral Codex Ten article is no substitute for clinical trials and measured experimental data. The ethanol concerns are dismissed by ACT with no real analysis

An Astral Codex Ten article is no substitute for clinical trials and measured experimental data. The ethanol concerns are dismissed by ACT with no real analysis, when the data presented is from an in-vitro thesis that didn't study the actual genetic modified bacterium at all, and feeding it nutrients which aren't found in the mouth of Western diets: that is, a very low sugar blood agar/DNB broth. It's quackery to make comparisons on that kind of flimsy evidence. This bacterium produces ethanol from sugar! Further, ACT has their facts wrong, citing an average blood alcohol level of 1 mg/dl when it's actually 0.039. 1 mg/dl is the 95th percentile. So, according to the cited source, average blood alcohol levels go up 5.6x, and that is somehow not a risky chronic condition because there are people in the population with higher levels of that toxin in their bloodstream at the 95th percentile. ACT should know better, but is biased because his wife takes it. Probably knows the principals socially in Berkeley.