Talk:National Temperance Council

Source
This wikipedia entry is taken verbatim from "Temperance Movement Groups and Leaders in the U.S." Omission of the source reference has now been corrected.David Justin 02:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Let's add a Criticism section!
Here's some text for consideration to include in the article:

The ideological and political notion of limiting access to alcohol products has been noted by many researchers as outdated, unscientific and overly-manipulative of human populaces. (Add many easy to find, empirically researched references here.) Furthermore, contemporary studies highly correlate moderate alcohol beverage consumption with many health benefits, including (but not limited to) decreased risk of atherosclerosis,

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 * The above is a criticism of temperance in general and might go in that article. Even there though, a criticism citing one scientific paper only would not survive for 30 seconds. Take a look at the articles in the Alcohol and Health box to see hundreds of papers about alcohol's effects, often bad but sometimes good. Nunquam Dormio (talk) 08:30, 15 September 2009 (UTC)