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Stanton Glantz
@profglantz.com

The problem with this paper, like all similar papers, is that it ignores all the evidence that e-cigarettes are associated with disease approaching or indistinguishable from cigs. It also minimizes effects on kids. Our new paper explicitly engages and debunks all their arguments. rdcu.be/fmV1O

rdcu.beE-cigarettes increase harm and should be discouragedNature Human Behaviour - Ever since electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were first marketed in 2004, they have been promoted as ‘tobacco harm reduction’ on the basis of the assumption...
Charles A. Gardner, PhD@chancethegardener.bsky.social

One of the most troubling things about your public messaging is that you fail to acknowledge how many experts, with no industry ties, disagree with you. So I'll see your Nature paper and raise you another, authored by three former WHO Directors. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.comSmoke-free nicotine products can accelerate the end of the smoking epidemicNature Health - Increased use of smoke-free nicotine products such as vapes could help to achieve an ambitious global goal of reducing smoking prevalence below 5% by 2040.

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Charles A. Gardner, PhD
@chancethegardener.bsky.social

Have you read Thomas Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions"? His short book made a pivotal contribution to the history of science field (1962). QUESTION: Does it never trouble you that you might be wrong? In Kuhnian terms: You may be on the wrong side of a paradigm shift...