I am inclined to agree with the findings of those learned and sensible scientists of which you speak. In fact I was inclined in all directions last night when I consumed a fair amount of whisky and lager.
The upper crust and landed gentry are swigging wine and shorts all day and they usually hang on into their nineties. The late Queen Mother could down several half pint glasses of gin and walk a dead straight line - I once read - and hit 101.
Our British ancestors in far-off times drank nothing but beer usually because drinking from a river or stream could finish you off in short order.
'Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant.'
