A herd of buffalo can only travel as fast as the slowest buffalo. When the herd is chased, the slowest animals are in the back, and they are the first to be killed. This natural selection is good for the herd, because it loses the weak and it increases the average speed and health of the whole herd.

We can compare that with the human brain, that can only think as fast as the slowest brain cell. Recent research has proven that drunkenness kills some of the brain cells. Alcohol kills the slowest and weakest of these cells. Thus, the regular consumption of beer helps to eliminate our weak and unhealthy brain cells, and makes our brain faster and more efficient.

Students around the University of Gent in Belgium have shown the influence of the many drinking parties on the performance of the drinkers the next days. It explains why professional people, who left the university environment for a few years, where heavy drinking of beer is normal, and who settled in a family environment, are unable to compete mentally and intellectually with people who recently left the university. Only those who maintain the habit of regular beer drinking can maintain the intellectual levels they had during their student years.
The conclusion and significance on a National level is, that we, if we want to maintain our technical and intellectual leadership in the world as a nation, we have to send our intellectuals back to the pub.

Jef Versele, student leader in Gent responsible for the study.
Newsletter February, 2001