 "There's no benefit to lowering the drinking age"From the Christian Science Monitor…
Arguments against the 21 minimum legal drinking age don't stack up against decades of prevention research, writes PIRE senior researcher Robert Voas, Ph.D., in an opinion page article (PDF). "After nearly four decades of exacting research on how to save lives and reduce injuries by preventing drinking and driving, there is a revanchist attempt afoot to roll back one of the most successful laws in generations: the minimum legal drinking age of 21.
"This is extremely frustrating. While public health researchers must produce painstaking evidence that's subjected to critical scholarly review, lower-drinking-age advocates seem to dash off remarks based on glib conjecture and self-selected facts...
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