This guy makes GREAT videos. Conspiracy theories? You bet, and I believe them all.

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Yes, but I still wonder how they came up with the 50% and 75%.The primary problem with their model is not an unrealistic level of harm reduction, but that it assumes far more people would initiate cigarette smoking (presumably as a result of having vaped) than would quite cigarette smoking via vaping! This makes it almost irrelevant what the level of harm reduction is; the model will produce life-years lost no matter whether the degree of harm reduction is 0% or 100%.
The only way this model could reflect reality in the future is if they were anticipating e-cigs being pulled from the market. In that case, you will get plenty of people who initiate smoking and few who quit smoking via vaping.
Arbitrarily.......Yes, but I still wonder how they came up with the 50% and 75%.
That doesn't surprise me at all.Dr. Siegel again writes a great article.
The Rest of the Story: Tobacco and Alcohol News Analysis and Commentary: The “Other” Youth Vaping Epidemic: Why Has It Been Ignored?
Retort"Scientists expect more than 1.5 million years of human life to be lost."
We're screwed, folks.
I'm tired.
Interesting........ Wonder if it is the fungicide.
Why does the CDC have to wait for a study from The Mayo Clinic? Is that the normal progression in these cases?
And also, don't they have at least some samples of these carts people were vaping? How do they study those?
Hell, NBC did their own informal mini-analysis in days, by farming it out to a company that specializes in testing cannabis samples.
I hope there's a lot more going on behind the scenes that we're privy too. Otherwise we have to look at how this agency functions and make sure it has the resources necessary to respond.
It's not a binary, it's a spectrum.i Thought you Liked the CDC?
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It's not a binary, it's a spectrum.
I do like science and proper methodology, as a layperson. And I do try not to project my current anger into a (what I perceive as) neutral statement.
But that doesn't mean I don't ask questions, nor does it mean that they won't do a "lessons learned" once all this shakes out. I can almost guarantee that we'll see some interesting budget debates come of all this, it already started with the congressional vaping hearings, and references to out-of-date systems. And if you're an agency subject to congress's purse strings, I suppose that's completely expected.
Let me guess, your cat's name is Mizer.
Interesting........ Wonder if it is the fungicide.
My dogs name is Andie. We thought she was a he when we named her. So Andy became Andie. Nice looking dog btw.
Interesting, though I hope this doesn't make people think vaping oils is okay.