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If you look at what I have written over the years you will see that my views have changed as the evidence has accumulated. I don’t think you or the other ecig advocates can say the same thing. Your arguments have been set in amber for the last 15-20 years or so.

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...

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Joe Gitchell

@jgitchell.bsky.social

12 June

What evidence or evidence synthesis causes the most tension with your thinking?

Charles A. Gardner, PhD

@chancethegardener.bsky.social

15 June

I constantly ask myself: Am I wrong? Do you? One of us is wrong, and the one that is wrong is very likely to cause preventable deaths (which is bad).

Charles A. Gardner, PhD

@chancethegardener.bsky.social

12 June

I have only worked in Tobacco Control for 8 years. Before that I focused on HIV, TB, malaria, dengue, rabies and child health. Now I support #HarmReduction. MY community thinks #HarmReduction skeptics are stuck in amber. So we're having a stupid argument. Here is how we view the world.