Comment by wnevets

You say obvious. I say I've never heard of it. Interesting to me anyway.

There's "poisoning" from lots of stuff that we wouldn't traditionally classify as "poison", like water [1] or oxygen [2].

I am not a chemist or a doctor, but I think the common adage is "it's the dose that makes the poison". Most stuff is bad for you if you get too much of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity

What? Maybe I was unclear. I'm not saying it's not a poison. It seems like I walked into some entrenched debate and I don't even know what it is. Is it obvious that alcohol has sex specific effects? I didn't know. Is this some kind of culture war thing?

The point is this study has nothing to do with alcohol being a "poison" , that's completely irrelevant to what was tested and discovered.