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Jul 22, 2008
Your ancestors did. Drinking water posed the risk of cholera, dysentery and other diseases. Drinking beer kept them alive. And they passed their beer-drinking genes on to you. That's the thesis of Steven Johnson's book, The Ghost Map. See George Will's take on this [here].
It was good enough for Isaac. It was good enough for Jacob. It was good enough for….
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