Whenever you talk about vaping, you see people quoting a figure: 95%. According to SCIENCE, vaping is 95% better for you than smoking Here's a brief tweetorial on why that's wrongpic.twitter.com/j1RJPDLEZD
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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Whenever you talk about vaping, you see people quoting a figure: 95%. According to SCIENCE, vaping is 95% better for you than smoking Here's a brief tweetorial on why that's wrongpic.twitter.com/j1RJPDLEZD
Are you happier with this from RCP? https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/promote-e-cigarettes-widely-substitute-smoking-says-new-rcp-report … Very difficult to convey this into meaningful words Remember both PHE +RCP examined many reports(100's) not just Nuttpic.twitter.com/RbfwxJ7dyj
Or this via @carlvphillips .....multiple threads existed. But this attempts to verbalise an estimated value
But remember both PHE and RCP were attempting to convey a message to the general public, the 95% or 5% figs were best estimates. 'We estimate close to harmless' ?pic.twitter.com/EDP3yNT52H
I have to say, I find your comments to be some of the most informed I read. Yes, those are much less misleading, although I still think the veracity of the 95% figure is problematic
It is problematic. Sheer fantasy actually. But not because of some silly pyramid created to explain science to children (or medics in this case). Expert opinion is the ONLY source of knowledge. The problem is the the source is INEXPERT knowledge.
Yes, I am being rather hard on you. But I have no patience for this (strangely common) pattern of those who self-style as "debunkers", but then just replace grade-school-level simplistic errors with middle-school-level ones. Don't rely on your epi classes to understand science.
I don't? As far as I can tell your major objections appear to be glib comments and snide insults, it just seems a waste responding
After repeating the same lessons for so long, it becomes hard not to be snarky about it. Your basic sketch was solid. But a lot of the details were wrong, as others have pointed out. That faux hierarchy of epistemology, though, that is the real credibility killer.
Whereas expert opinion, long proven to be infallible, is 100% correct and unquestionable Which is why, I assume you follow the exact words of Emeritus Professor Simon Chapman, noted public health expert with decades of experience when it comes to vaping
He’s an expert on windmills I thought? Decades 
Apologies, should've been a comma between "experience" and "vaping". Technically, no one has decades of experience when it comes to vaping Also, absolutely. As a public health expert, he is pretty impressive
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