Finally, we would like to comment on the new systematic reviews and meta-analyses done by our group that are referenced in this paper. We believe that the current effort has been the most comprehensive and systematic to date to examine the relationships between alcohol consumption and disease/injury. Although we have systematically controlled for quality of the analyses by conducting inter-rater studies on random sub-samples, there will be errors. However, all the meta-analyses will be published in peer-reviewed journals including full specification of included articles for each disease/injury condition, the full methodology and the statistical model, so that all steps can be criticised and improved upon via the usual scientific procedures of replication and additional analyses.
