Vice: Scientists Say Another Glantz Study Needs Retraction

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Scientists Say Another Panic-Fueling Vaping Study Needs to Be Retracted

Three weeks after the American Heart Association's journal retracted a vaping study that led to heightened panic last summer, academics and health experts are pushing for another influential peer-reviewed medical journal to retract a vaping report of its own.

The collection of concerned scholars and scientists think that a paper published in Pediatrics in 2018 incorrectly and dangerously argued that people who vape are more likely to become smokers. The Pediatrics research pulls from the "gateway" theory, a once-popular and now oft-lambasted idea that smoking cannabis could lead to more serious and potentially addictive substance use.

Smoking, simply, could have led to continued smoking. Glantz and his partners did not consider this variable.

...reproduced the study, taking that variable into account, and determined that e-cigarettes could not be "independently associated" with more smoking.

 

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