Of course Swiss law matters. This article is on a Swiss website and reports on a Swiss trial.

If you think someone convicted of rape is not necessarily a rapist, that’s on you.

The only definition that matters is the one used by Swiss courts. And Swiss courts found him guilty of rape.

This was a prospective study that looked at lifelong abstainers, not people who gave up drinking. Furthermore, reduced overall mortality was found in light/moderate drinkers even after excluding participants with pre-existing conditions.

That’s the correct way to control for the issue you raised.

Despite what the linked article claims, it’s still not clear whether alcohol’s known cancer risk is outweighed by any health benefits (for example, reducing the risk of stroke/CVD). At least one recent paper concluded that light or moderate alcohol use does reduce overall mortality.

Compared with lifetime abstainers, current infrequent, light, or moderate drinkers were at a lower risk of mortality from all causes [infrequent—hazard ratio: 0.87; 95% confidence interval: 0.84 to 0.90; light: 0.77; 0.75 to 0.79; moderate 0.82; 0.80 to 0.85], CVD, chronic lower respiratory tract diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, and influenza and pneumonia. Also, light or moderate drinkers were associated with lower risk of mortality from diabetes mellitus and nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, or nephrosis. In contrast, heavy drinkers had a significantly higher risk of mortality from all causes, cancer, and accidents (unintentional injuries).

Humans also don’t generally eat poison. But the mice in this study were poisoned with DSS after eating meat. Maybe meat is not the real culprit here…

In the animal study, mice were fed three types of red meat – pork, beef and mutton – every day for two weeks. Then, the researchers triggered colitis (a model for IBD) using a chemical called dextran sulfate sodium (DSS).

They definitely aren’t evolved to eat dextran sulfate sodium.

Like saying goodbye to a crazy neighbor you know.

To each their own.

Personally, I don’t mind sitting outside in the sun. It’s a good place to have a beer.

You can get the RDA of vitamin D from a healthy diet, without need for sunlight.

Weight gain is caused by diet and lack of exercise, not lack of sunlight.

SAD can be treated with non-carcinogenic lamps.

What deleterious health effects from not getting sun exposure?

Most outdoor activities are avoidable. Avoiding those activities entirely is safer than wearing protection.

You could certainly try to keep your sunlight exposure to a bare minimum.

Or you can just weigh the inherent risks of doing things you enjoy.

There’s no “safe” level of sunlight, even if you wear sunscreen.

Sunlight is also a carcinogen, but that doesn’t mean you always stay indoors.

To disable suggestions:

“Alexa, stop By The Way”

It doesn’t take any energy to fly, if you’re made of helium.

Gravity at the event horizon is inversely related to the mass of the black hole. So for a supermassive black hole, gravity at the event horizon can be weak. But you still can’t escape because it’s too large.

Imagine light trying to escape the Earth’s gravity. Its path is slightly deviated by the Earth, then it gets far enough away that the Earth has little further effect.

Now suppose at that distance, it still experienced the same gravity. So the trajectory of light is deviated a little more. It keeps moving farther away but gravity barely changes, even at huge distances. Eventually all those little deviations add up and it’s going back where it came from. Light can’t escape. It’s a black hole.

Not necessarily. In fact, it’s possible for gravity at the event horizon to be less than Earth’s gravity.