But let’s hope this stands! Back to my coffee…
Alcoholic beverages are bad at any level, according to all the recent studies. Previous studies that found mild positive effects for small doses were confounded by uncontrolled factors that overwhelmed the (mild) negative effects of alcohol.
For coffee, we at least have pretty good data showing that even large quantities don't have seriously bad effects. So lower quantities are probably at least neutral for health.
We can't treat the pain because the liver is fucked.
Most suffer from EtOH dementia.
Nearly all have pulmonary hypertension to go along with their regular hypertension.
With that goes along CHF and pulmonary emboli and other CVA incidents.
Many suffer agony from pancreatitis, which again we can't treat because of damage to the live.
Alcohol ages every body system rapidly and most of my EtOH Pts have the physiological response of somone 20 years older.
It literally poisons every organ system.
If there was a paper that very thoroughly proved that caffeine was detrimental, it would rocket up into a high tier journal. So I suspect many people may try to look for negative outcomes but aren't finding them. But also I haven't searched for negative chronic effects of caffeine and only hear of results like this. So maybe I'm totally wrong and there's a conspiracy against publishing results on negative effects.
I find this assertion to be farcical. Follow the money - coffee is multibillion dollar market in the US alone. Also it serves the government. Many people in positions of power drink coffee and enjoy it.
Money has power and influences what gets researched.