Experts eviscerate glantzian lunacy in new Lancet letter

[DrMA]

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(16)30024-8/fulltext

 

[Kent C]

Sample:

"In a study of UK stop smoking services, smokers quitting with e-cigarettes have higher quit rates than those using other treatments. However in the studies that form the core of Kalkhoran and Glantz's meta-analysis, all these successful quitters were excluded."

 

[Katya]

"Using the logic Kalkhoran and Glantz applied in their Article, this would be taken to mean that piano lessons undermine musical ability."

 

[LoveVanilla]

Wow, excellent!

 

[Ca Ike]

Great article

 

[Grimwald]

I'm sure this will be on CNN any day now, right?

 

[bobwho77]

These are consultants for Pfizer saying this. Are they actually DEFENDING their competitors

 

[sonicbomb]

They should be eviscerated, then defenestrated for good measure

 

[nicnik]

These are consultants for Pfizer saying this. Are they actually DEFENDING their competitors

Might be a clue that they'll be first to get a vape product through.

 

[nomore stinkies]

"As currently being used, e-cigarettes are associated with significantly less quitting among smokers."
Quoted from the "scientific article's" conclusion produced and written by non other than the Almighty Stanton Glantz. I wish that man would produce one GENUINE scientific argument. Study after study that this man has had his name attached to has been decimated and proven scientifically WRONG. Someone show this man how a scientific hypothesis is conducted. He always excludes a very important piece to the puzzle. Or misrepresents them. ARGH

 

[BuGlen]

"As currently being used, e-cigarettes are associated with significantly less quitting among smokers."
Quoted from the "scientific article's" conclusion produced and written by non other than the Almighty Stanton Glantz. I wish that man would produce one GENUINE scientific argument. Study after study that this man has had his name attached to has been decimated and proven scientifically WRONG. Someone show this man how a scientific hypothesis is conducted. He always excludes a very important piece to the puzzle. Or misrepresents them. ARGH

Well, that's his job. He gets paid to make policy based science, ignoring any and all real science, to support pre-determined outcomes. He gets to pretend he's still the watchdog, and basking in the spotlight, while actually being their lapdog.

 

[rico942]

They should be eviscerated, then defenestrated for good measure

I once made a living as a window washer, so I must strongly disapprove of evisceration before defenestration ...

Working 10 stories up in a bosun's chair takes guts, but please, not on the glass ...

 

[Rickajho]

Well, that's his job. He gets paid to make policy based science...

Policy based science? Well that's right up there with "government intelligence."

 

[Tufur]

Policy based science? Well that's right up there with "government intelligence."

In the 1980s a disease struck a vulnerable part of our public bathroom society. That is when the FDA 's safe and sane drug approval procedure was transformed into a politically expedient presentation of questionable medical solutions to shut the dying up until they were dead. We got fast track drug approval pathways, shorter drug trial times, and instant release to the most vulnerable who died anyway. Ethics were tossed out door to make the dying think they had a chance. Much money was made during this time. It became the best racket since filling out phony 4F medical forms during the Vietnam War. The FDA was put under a lot of pressure and one party found a way to gain votes while releasing the safeguards. Policy based science was born and will haunt us until the bureaucratic created research centers are shut down. These centers have one goal. And that is to produce a simile of science that can move a political agenda forward. These centers are seriously damaging the peer review process now as they review their fellow bureaucratic employee's papers and approve them for publication. The checks and balances are gone.