Harry Shapiro
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
https://antithrlies.com/2019/01/02/peer-review-of-charlotta-pisinger-et-al-u-copenhagen-public-health-a-conflict-of-interest-is-strongly-associated-with-tobacco-industry-favourable-results-indic...
Harry’s blog 78: The end of the beginning
Dec. 20, 2018
I have spent the past year working with an exemplary group of people to produce the first Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report. The report was launched in Geneva in October, receiving i...
Harry’s blog 77: Between a hard rock and a soft face
Dec. 6, 2018
Sometime in the 1990s, the UK TV station Channel 4 conducted what was called A Citizens’ Jury concerning drugs. A group of 12 citizens were chosen to hear some actual evidence-based information ab...
Harry’s blog 76: When money talks, the truth walks
Nov. 27, 2018
Before you embark on this nefarious enterprise, make sure you have sufficient funds to deliver on all that follows. Make your message believable even if it is the opposite of the truth. To make so...
Harry’s blog 75: Getting grown up about nicotine
Nov. 19, 2018
Yet this didn’t stop the BBC having a sensible and interesting discussion about developments in the global alcohol market on its Radio 4 business programme, ‘The Bottom Line’. One of the station’s...
Harry’s blog 74: A charter for tobacco harm reduction?
Nov. 11, 2018
As readers of the Global State of THR might recall, this Declaration repeats many past global public health ‘health for all with nobody left behind’ aspirations that wither on the vine. But any ex...