Carl Phillips responds to Chi-Ming Hai's lies

[oplholik]

"You have never heard of Chi Min Hai. He is not an ANTZ (though he became an instant ANTZ mascot), but either he or his institution (Brown University) is aggressively trying to spread anti-e-cigarette lies about his research."

Chi-Ming Hai is a liar – nicotine does not cause measurable risk of CVD | Anti-THR Lies and related topics

 

[Anjaffm]

bah... what nonsense....
and good article taking the nonsense apart

(He also asked me why the university would aggressively tout something that was nonsense. I pointed out that it happens all the time, and they just want to get their names in the paper, and do not care how.)

hahaha yup

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

Makes you wonder why this "researcher" wasted this amount of time and money when the answer is available at a population level by Googling swedish miracle + snus + studies.

There are two studies referenced in this one paragraph I found in about 2 minutes.

Atherosclerosis and risk factors for atherosclerosis
The available studies of Swedish snus do not indicate an association between snus use and either atherosclerosis or risk factors for this disease. Bolinder et al. (1997b) estimated the degree of atherosclerosis in a group of firefighters by measurement of the carotid artery wall thickness. They found no significant difference between snus users and non-tobacco users in this respect. In other studies of Bolinder et al. (1997b,c) and Eliasson et al. (1991, 1995) no association was found between snus use and risk factors for atherosclerosis (blood lipid levels, fibrinogen levels, fibrinolytic activity, insulin resistance).

From here.

Cardiovascular disease - Swedish Match

This shows up on page one of the search, there's only 246,000 hits this search.

I know that real research is harder than this, but maybe if I write it up correctly I can get a 100K grant like Prue did for her Google search.