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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...
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...