The peak of 007’s drinking came on Day 3 of the mission described in “From Russia With Love.” During that 24-hour period, 007 drank a whopping 398.4 grams of pure alcohol, the study authors calculated. Then they crunched all their numbers.īut that’s just an average. In cases where the storyline was vague - i.e., Bond “got drunk” or there was an order to “bring in the drink tray” - the researchers made “relatively conservative estimates in the context of his overall drinking habits,” according to the study. They looked up drink recipes on Wikipedia to figure out the ingredients in each of his cocktails. The other 12 books were read by the study authors, curled up at home in “comfy” chairs.Īs they read, the researchers took detailed notes about Bond’s activities, including his drinking. Two of the 14 books were excluded from the analysis - “The Spy Who Loved Me” was dropped because it was told from the point of view of a waitress who doesn’t introduce Bond until two-thirds of the way into the story, and “Octopussy and the Living Daylights” failed to make the cut because it’s a series of short stories. For starters, they used the books by Sir Ian Fleming as their source material, not the movies. The BMJ’s Christmas issue is known for its wacky medical reports, but the authors who diagnosed James Bond took the matter quite seriously.
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