Why government health guidance on alcohol is, and always will be, incoherent 

Dr. Mehmet Oz — one of the few members of President Donald Trump’s second administration who might once have rivaled him for network television fame — played to that very strength in early January while introducing the Department of Health and Human Services’s new alcohol consumption guidelines. Defending the Trump administration’s decision to ditch long-standing advice that drinkers limit themselves to two tipples per day for men and one for women, Oz offered reporters a pithy sound bite by way of personal advice: “Don’t have it for breakfast.”

While the official report sounds a note of caution, in his remarks, Oz offered an unexpected, garbled defense of drinking in the face of trends toward sobriety (just 54% of Americans reported drinking at all in the most