"Alcohol protects men's hearts"

From the BBC:

The study was conducted in Spain, a country with relatively high rates of alcohol consumption and low rates of coronary heart disease. The research involved men and women aged between 29 and 69, who were asked to document their lifetime drinking habits and followed for 10 years...

The researchers from centres across Spain placed the participants into six categories - from never having drunk to drinking more than 90g of alcohol each day. This would be the equivalent of consuming about eight bottles of wine a week, or 28 pints of lager.

For those drinking little - less than a shot of vodka a day for instance - the risk was reduced by 35%. And for those who drank anything from three shots to more than 11 shots each day, the risk worked out an average of 50% less.

You might think that the bansturbators aren't going to take this lying down. And they are not. The BBC article contains rent-a-quotes from three bansturbators, and not a single one from anybody representing anything like a brewery or a pub. Would it have been so terrible to get a quote from somebody saying "We told you so", even if just for the comedy value?