I Find Flaw In A Study
I just found a flaw in a study I just read about. The study analyzed the alcohol consumption of James Bond, concluding that Bond’s alcohol consumption predicted serious health consequences. However, as I said, there is a flaw. (Ignore the fact that the article has a picture of Daniel Craig whom we all know is not really James Bond.)
The flaw is that James Bond is a fictional character.
That’s right, fiction. He is not alive. He does not actually drink any alcohol because he does not really exist. He does not have a liver, or a heart. As such, alcohol cannot have any effect upon such. He has no body at all and cannot suffer any adverse effects from alcohol, which he cannot actually drink because he doesn’t exist.
In fact, even if Bond were based on a real person, that person would probably be dead already. Let us not forget that Ian Fleming wrote the books back in the 50′s and 60′s. Even presuming that a person on whom Bond could have been based was 30 in 1950, he’d be 93 by now. I’m thinking even any kind of base for Bond is already dead. After all, Ian Fleming himself has been dead for almost 50 years. I’m not thinking that alcohol has much effect on dead people.
Anyway, it didn’t take long to spot a flaw in the study. They can say what they want, but alcohol is probably not that harmful to the deceased and the nonexistent. Just saying.
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Speaking as someone who actually does exist, I'd expect to be done in by bullets, bombs, or lasers long before the bottle catches up with me, and I'm not even a secret agent.
Somebody actually wasted time on that as a serious study?
D.C. wrote: "Somebody actually wasted time on that as a serious study?"There was supposedly a study. I don't entirely know how serious they were being, but supposedly they did a study to figure out how much Bond was actually drinking and then compare that to known health effects for that level.
And yeah, the long term effects of drinking seem to pale against other Bond type dangers.
