Scientific Misconduct In Alcohol Research(SMAR): SUMMARY

SMAR: SUMMARY

The alcohol research reports, literatures, promulgations in general basically asserts that “alcohol” drinking causes many health problems, disorders, diseases and specially the “dependence” particularly in those people who are prone (vulnerable, predisposed) to alcoholism problems, irrespective of the alcohol content in the drink that they consume high or low. In fact the low-alcohol drinks that come under the purview of the alcoholic beverage licensing and other “drinking” legislation, considered as equally dangerous. Even the alcoholic beverages containing around 0.5% alcohol (v/v) declared as potentially dangerous particularly for the people having the alcohol dependence. However in my research study on this matter I found out that almost all of the above mentioned alcohol research reports, empirical, clinical, epidemiological studies, surveys fundamentally seems to have conducted or based on the people consuming those high-alcohol content beverages designated as the “Standard Alcohol Drinks”. The most popular among them is the “standard beer” drink, which contains around 4.5% alcohol (v/v). Meanwhile, all these “alcohol research” seems to have totally ignore to verify or to check it out whether all these alcohol use disorder, dependence, diseases, alcoholism problems, really occurs in the people who prefer, choose or opt to drink the low-alcohol drinks (say containing around 2% or less alcohol v/v). This principle “omission”, negligence or failure to conduct research on this most critical of the Alcohol (low) drinks, in my opinion brings in a basic default or “falsification” into this entire alcohol research, which under the Principles of “Ethics in Science” is defined as a Scientific or the Research (Updated on: 13-6-2007)