tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post8602356731575037355..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Eye color and alcohol dependenceDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-41175330512731850132015-05-13T04:20:26.201+03:002015-05-13T04:20:26.201+03:00Unfortunately, MDs who attempt to "do science...Unfortunately, MDs who attempt to "do science" are the worst for the "correlation implies causality" fallacy. Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06029565423493357259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-2471110295350784252015-05-07T02:32:43.910+03:002015-05-07T02:32:43.910+03:00Alcohol dependency is not a disease. Maybe these p...Alcohol dependency is not a disease. Maybe these people like to drink more. I'm from south europe, have blue eyes and know others as well but alcohol consumption here does not even approach the levels I saw in Sweden. I'd drink with swedish friends and some people would get going until they were knocked out and dead on the table.<br /><br />Reminds me something a Belarussian once told me: if the cold catches you without some vodka in you, you wish for death.<br /><br />Also remember that the ancient greeks viewed the blond (and presumably blue eyed) Scythians as very savage due to their custom of drinking a lot of wine and unwatered wine at that too. Even Tacitus wrote that "their entire race is unsatiable in wine". I suppose that it may be hard to escape the lure of beer with the cold outside and 4000 years of adaptation to one form of Jagermeister or another.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17860789176731717272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-68700637455024308852015-05-06T16:14:16.733+03:002015-05-06T16:14:16.733+03:00This is quite interesting, I wonder if such associ...This is quite interesting, I wonder if such associations could be applied with other diseases too?trevor_rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03938233671466955687noreply@blogger.com