Dr. Prue Talbot in Tobacco Control -- Mining data on usage of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) from YouTube videos

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Dr. Prue Talbot adds to her extensive 'research' of e-cigarettes, all of which she has done seemingly without ever seeking to meet a single e-cigarette user.

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Just an abstract at the moment. Hopefully someone will end up with the full text article.

 

[Vocalek]

Perhaps we should write to Dr. Talbot and volunteer to meet with her to discuss our smoking history, quitting attempts, and e-cigarette use.

 

[VapApe]

Perhaps we should write to Dr. Talbot and volunteer to meet with her to discuss our smoking history, quitting attempts, and e-cigarette use.

And what confuse her with the the facts after she had her mind made up. Now we cant have that you know.

 

[rothenbj]

They just have way too much tobacco money in Cali.

 

[K.P.]

Actually, this is a pretty good idea from a researcher's perspective. Dr Eissenberg's first study was criticized for instructing users to use an ecig differently from the manner in which an experienced user would. For him or PT or anyone else to invite experienced users into a lab-setting and demonstrate would be a step in the right direction, but runs afoul of the eternal problem: volunteers who know they're being observed, and what they're being observed for, may not act naturally in a lab setting. Especially if they have something to prove (such as that their well-loved but as-yet-untested gadget actually works).
It would be much better to test the critics' claim (that ecigs work when used properly with long, deep inhalations and not as Dr E instructed) by observing experienced users 'in the wild' when they don't know they're being watched, their techniques closely observed, and inhalations timed. Despite what people may think, research grants can be very hard work to secure (even for those with tenure) and watching users on YouTube is infinitely cheaper than seeking users out in public and spying on them.

 

[Tom09]

Just waiting for the next paper of Talbot’s group, impressively prolific in getting trivial results published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Perhaps their next project could be to compare the colors of cigarettes and e-cigarettes in YouTube videos - and claim false advertisement if they find out that some of the latter don’t "look like analogs".

The Ashtray blog has some comments on the bias in Talbot’s latest paper.

 

[cookiebun]

This stuff is so frustrating.
Have any of these "experts" ever bothered to sit down and actually talk to a smoker or ecig user?
I don't draw longer and harder on my ecig because it doesn't deliver nicotine well. I don't even use nicotine.
I take a longer pull on my ecig because I get more vapor that way. I like the mouth feel and throat hit of the vapor. The bigger the cloud the better.
I some times vape just VG and water because of the huge plumes of vapor I get.
Don't care for the taste so much.

It's almost criminal that people get paid to do such nonsense and call it research.
Absolutely infuriating.