If you have any good sense at all you will never say anything when a woman at a party says she can't drink alcohol because she is pregnant.
The pregnant woman has nothing to worry about, drinking alcohol during pregnancy as a cause of fetal alcohol syndrome is a pervasive unscientific fallacy.
I followed an early study of the subject in the 1970s when the syndrome was first recognized. I had close friend on the case with unlimited government funds from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The study that resulted was the only study ever done. (You paid for this study with your taxes but you have to pay $25 to read this one article because the science community doesn't really believe in open science.) (Being called a scientist is becoming an insult.)
The results: with nearly unlimited research funds, no American women could be found who drank heavily during pregnancy outside of Indian reservations... none. So no connection could be made to drinking alcohol during pregnancy and fetal alcohol syndrome except among Indian women and their children.
Off the reservation, non-Indian women in the United States simply drink very little during pregnancy, even alcoholic women ...they don't like the taste. Therefore with millions of dollars of funding, there was no way to do a study of the effects of alcohol on the infant.
Let's drink a toast to reality versus pervasive fallacies.
I followed an early study of the subject in the 1970s when the syndrome was first recognized. I had close friend on the case with unlimited government funds from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The study that resulted was the only study ever done. (You paid for this study with your taxes but you have to pay $25 to read this one article because the science community doesn't really believe in open science.) (Being called a scientist is becoming an insult.)
The results: with nearly unlimited research funds, no American women could be found who drank heavily during pregnancy outside of Indian reservations... none. So no connection could be made to drinking alcohol during pregnancy and fetal alcohol syndrome except among Indian women and their children.
Off the reservation, non-Indian women in the United States simply drink very little during pregnancy, even alcoholic women ...they don't like the taste. Therefore with millions of dollars of funding, there was no way to do a study of the effects of alcohol on the infant.
Let's drink a toast to reality versus pervasive fallacies.