Harry Shapiro
Harry’s blog 89: GFN 2019 – a very civil society
June 24, 2019
Nowadays, there is a view that such a gathering of like-minded people is just another echo chamber where we are all agree and partake of a massive hug-fest. But we certainly do not all agree on ev...
Harry’s blog 88: The Upton Sinclair factor
June 4, 2019
I often read exasperated outbursts on social media and in op-eds from pro- drug reform campaigners who cannot understand why the powers that be don’t ‘get’ that the war on drugs has failed and tha...
Harry’s blog 87: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters
May 20, 2019
The meeting was held in the headquarters of INFARMED, the Portuguese equivalent of the FDA; its President, Professor Maria do Céu Machado, was in the room sitting alongside Manuel Cardoso, Deputy ...
Harry’s blog 86: Wormholes, black holes and dark matter
April 23, 2019
So imagine this episode through a wormhole into a universe far into the future and a meeting of the Inter-Galactic Health Organisation being addressed by the Conference Chair Madame Chaargg from t...
Harry’s blog 85: The truth deficit
April 4, 2019
And he is right; just using the UK as a small example, the public smoking ban in pubs, restaurants and on public transport has made a night out much more comfortable and safer; advertising (backe...
Harry’s blog 84: Turf wars in a land down under
March 12, 2019
I was going to start by highlighting some of the telling points made by Professor Marewa Glover from New Zealand, a passionate advocate for the health rights of indigenous and first nation people....
Harry’s blog 83: The arrogance of public health
March 5, 2019
In this article Dworkin compares the parallel histories of medicine and public health. His main point is that the origins of public health were science-based, for example trying to isolate the ca...
Harry’s blog 82: Comment is free, but clearly fact-checking isn’t
Feb. 21, 2019
However, fair play, there is still much to be done to track company activities. Sadly, in the process, and no doubt assisted in their efforts by funding from Vital Strategies (itself a grantee of ...
Harry’s blog 81: Supping with the Devil
Feb. 1, 2019
This is exactly the same response I get when I say I am working within tobacco harm reduction on projects funded by the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World because of the link with Philip Morris. Th...
Harry’s blog 79: This above all: to thine own self be true
Jan. 7, 2019
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