My #GFN25 Michael Russell Oration is up! I start with recapping the state of the (flawed) science and what I think are the root causes in the academic system.

David The Risk-Monger has been doing a brilliant job calling out junk science for a long time. Now he’s calling out the nefarious system of “journalism” making the activists appear legitimate. substack.com/home/post/p-14… h/t Clive Bates

Jeffrey A. Singer But let's be real. Almost no teens vape those products "at least one time in the past 30 days." Teen daily use of those products is near nil. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person on Earth who actually reads what CDC surveys actually show.

Down 5-0 and being no hit through 7. Scored in the 8th, tied it in the 9th. Walked it off in the 10th. Yankees walk it off.

Jeff Jeff Stier 🤝 Ilya Ilya Somin

The urgent need for the FDA to sensibly regulate a variety of reduced risk alternatives to deadly cigarettes strikes me as both intuitive and obvious. Nevertheless, opinions do vary.

Pickle garden harvest

Our RCT published today in Annals of Int Med found #vaping is THREE TIMES more effective than NRT in disadvantaged smokers (n=1045) After 6m ➡️28.4% of the vaping group had quit vs ➡️9.6% in the NRT group (continuous abstinence, CO verified) More ⤵️ colinmendelsohn.com.au/NVPs @clive_bates

Garlic season!

The first baby step by Trump U.S. FDA to “save vaping”. A welcome one. But there’s more to do to save lives. nypost.com/2025/07/17/bus…

TPA applauds U.S. FDA's decision to authorize Juul’s tobacco & menthol e-cigarettes—an overdue step toward real harm reduction. For too long, overregulation has blocked safer alternatives that help millions of smokers quit. protectingtaxpayers.org/press/watchdog…

Stepping away from public policy work to attend to my home-grown gazpacho.

I love farmers’ market season, so it’s time to revisit this from 2008. Buzzkill ⚠️: Instead of throwing $ for pricey organic food at the problem…encourage behavioral change – perhaps to take a cooking class & get veggie vouchers for graduating. nypost.com/2008/07/22/dr-…

My thoughts on this week's study that made the media with "a third of UK teenage vapers will go on to smoke": arielleselyaphd.substack.com/p/will-third-o…

It is not a surprise that bad actors have exploited the MA program, says Jeff Stier, a senior fellow at the Center for Consumer Choice “When the end user isn’t the payer, it should be expected that there would be all sorts of inefficiencies ... heartland.org/publications/m…

Hard not to roll my eyes and recall how not one of them protested when the CDC spent months scaring adult smokers away from nicotine vaping, even as the FDA and state health departments recognized EVALI was being caused by illicit THC products.