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057: Edward Slingerland on getting drunk & the evolutionary history of alcohol

A LOAD OF BS ON SPORT

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Why We're Suspect of Non-Drinkers

We have a problem where we can recognize the social usefulness of alcohol, but also realize all these perfectly legitimate reasons for why people wouldn't want to drink. If you have alcoholic tendencies, and probably about 15% of the human population does, you should not drink. And so I talk at the end about various ways where you can level the playing field a bit for non-drinkers.

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