Something has been
annoying me for some time. Yesterday, that came to a head. I woke in
the middle of the night with it nagging away so I am going to get it
out and Twitter is not good enough.
Yesterday a new
research paper was released.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0887233315001228
I am sure most of you
have read this by now and am certain that the ANTZ will have done so.
How do I know that? Because they have not commented, nor have they
run to their pets in the media to twist the results to their agenda.
Now I am not going to
write about the paper, no. This is not about one piece of research.
This is about ecig research in general or more to the point, the lack
of it.
The above research will
no doubt be dismissed as it was funded, nay, carried out by BAT. When
the ANTZ do comment, as they will have to at some point, they will
scream COI and Big Tobacco, not on the actual validity of the
research itself.
This is what is really
bugging me. Why do we constantly hear “we don't know what's in
them” and “there is not enough research” ? In the USA there is
a pot of hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars earmarked for ecig
research. Is this money being used on good research such as BAT have
just carried out? No it is not. Study after study has been carried
out drowning rats in eliquid, asking a few “youths” if they have
ever tried an ecig, searching social media for the slightest mention
of Vaping and likening ecig advertising to that of 1950's cigarettes.
There has been a host of other useless drains on that huge pot of
money. One or two almost came close to getting to the truth but with
clear intent were twisted to hide the actual results. The Public and
lawmakers are being lied to. They see the attention grabbing
headlines from “respected” sources and look no further. Science
has become a sham. A front for agenda driven groups Worldwide. It is
hard to trust any research on any subject now and that is a disgrace.
That huge pot of money
could have settled this debate in a matter of weeks with millions
left over. Good people are doing good research for a pittance and all they receive for it is dismissal and public shaming.
A message to the ANTZ.
Yes Glantz, I mean YOU. BAT have just showed you how to do research. If that does not shame
you, nothing will. Read it, replicate it. Find the truth. Otherwise
this is for you.
ANTZ “ I want the
truth”
Us “You can't handle
the truth”
ps. The title is another Phillip K Dick reference. Check the plotline out for relevance.