Neil Mckeganey
Why Academics Should Resist Pressure to Disengage with the Tobacco Industry
Sept. 27, 2016
The signatories’ concern is that the academics mere attendance, let alone participation, at this conference ‘could be detrimental to their own reputation and to the reputation of their affiliated ...
Tobacco Industry Funded E-Cigarette Research and the Rise of Academic McCarthyism
Feb. 27, 2016
McCambridge concedes that evidence of any current scientific misconduct on the part of the tobacco industry is “less strong”. However, in a world where allegation has supplanted evidence it is r...
Tobacco Control Research: A Tale of Two Delphi Groups
Sept. 9, 2015
The method that Nutt and colleagues used in this study was a continuation of earlier work in which they had used the approach of Multi-Criterion Decision Analysis (a form of the Delphi technique i...
When Public Health Harm Reduction Becomes Public Health Harm Promotion
June 22, 2015
The argument for such strident action seems to be that e-cigarettes are serving to renormalize smoking. For anybody seeking to promote evidence based public policy that anxiety, and the interventi...
Why do we love tobacco plain packaging and hate e cigs?
May 13, 2014
It is striking that many of those in public health who are now cautioning against e-cigarettes are the same experts who had previously supported harm reduction in relation to illegal drug use. Ove...