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Harry’s Blog 91: Fifteen minutes of sane
July 29, 2019
https://youtu.be/MVM3M3o2Nao From the sublime to the ridiculous, but daft with a point to make. While writing this next bit, it was hot enough in London to fry an egg on the head of the hyperventi...
Harry’s blog 90: The truth is out there – but not for you
July 16, 2019
I raise this due to a recent and inadvertent admission by the American Lung Association (ALA) that: “Scientists have been working hard to debunk the belief that e-cigarettes are less harmful than ...
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...
Teenage vaping epidemic: hype or fact?
March 30, 2019
The natural reaction is panic, and for a call for greater regulations. But does the data back these fears up? In reality, our children are far more likely to take illicit drugs or drink alcohol th...
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...