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Eric Boehm

Federal Contractors Responsible for 'Biased' Alcohol Study Should Be Punished, Oversight Committee Says

Federal contractors who were part of a Biden administration scheme to recommend that Americans reduce their drinking are now being called out by the House Oversight Committee for violating the terms of that contract.

Rep. James Comer (R–Ky.), the committee's chairman, says that members of a scientific panel did not have permission to release part of a "flawed" and "biased" study that was meant to lay the groundwork for stricter dietary guidelines for alcohol. In a letter sent last week, Comer asked the Department of Health and Human Services to consider "disciplinary, contractual, or legal action" against the contractors responsible for the study.

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