Twenty-One Debunked

NOTE: This blog is primarily about the United States and is thus written from an American perspective. Just as more and more Americans wa...

This is a question that many people have asked, and essentially all serious scholars know the truth. Even those who admit alcohol prohibitio...

Fed up with underage drinking? Want to not just reduce it, but eliminate it for good ? Well, we know of a scientifically proven, universal...

This is a question to which most researchers would answer "yes," due to numerous empirical studies as well as in theory, but many...

The latest state in which there is an attempt to lower the drinking age is South Dakota. Which, as you may know, was the second to last stat...

A new study of the drinking age (Males, 2008) apparently finds that a split (or "graduated") drinking age of 18 for beer/wine and ...

Binge drinking. We all have heard the term used incessantly in the media, who usually claim it is getting worse. Our kids are out of control...

In a desperate attempt to hang on for dear life, knowing its days are numbered, the pro-21 crowd is recycling an old fear: that alcoholism r...

One of the fears about lowering the drinking age is that traffic fatalities will rise. Usually, the pro-21 crowd either points to studies of...

Teenagers are often assumed to be risk-takers who engage in dangerous and idiotic activities. And that is often true. But compared to Americ...