Idiots.
Virtually every study ever done on MORTALITY shows moderate drinking reduces it.
Yes, there are downsides to your liver. But the upside to your heart is more important, in moderation.
I don't mean to be snarky here, but the actual evidence and the studies on this are not quite as certain as you have been led to believe. Quoting from the Mayo Clinic, “Even so, the evidence about the possible health benefits of alcohol isn't certain, and alcohol may not benefit everyone who drinks.”
As an example of why the Mayo Clinic says this despite multiple accounts in the media about the benefits of alcohol I will quote from another article from The Atlantic about the types of studies you are citing,
“It's not that studies showing health benefits from small amounts of alcohol are wrong; it's just that that's not how most people do drink. And the way many people drink damages their health.”
“It found that men who drank sparingly had a longer life expectancy than those who didn't drink at all. Wine worked best; men who drank an average of 0.7 ounces of wine daily lived about 2.5 years longer than those who drank beer or liquor and five years longer than nondrinkers.”
“Taking this study to heart and trying to drink 0.7 ounces of wine daily, the first step would be finding a glass small enough to allow you to do so.”
The devil always, always seems to be in the “details”. I would suggest that much of the information regarding the “health benefits” of drinking alcohol are derived from studies exploiting statistical anomalies such as the one cited in The Atlantic. If the benefits "moderate" alcohol consumption for the heart were as clear cut as is commonly reported in the media... there would likely be many doctors advising middle aged men nondrinkers to start drinking. I think that you would be hard pressed to find more than a tiny percentage who would actually do this and only under very specific circumstances.