1 study, 40 mice, what appears to be a genetically-modified susceptibility to cancer (??), and an utterly atypical exposure (massive, prolonged full body submersion). abolish twitter moments.https://twitter.com/i/events/1181298363712466944 …
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predictably, “top” (curated) tweets are reporting this story as proof vaping causes cancer, “latest” tweets are actually combing through the bullshit study and asking questions
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fuck it i’m buying a vape on my way home
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Replying to @micsolana
The results as you've described them make sense in a population prone to cancerous tumors, because (as I understand it, which is at a wikipedia-reader level) nicotine likely accelerates tumor growth, including, presumably, to a detectable size from a not-yet-detectable size
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But like, what this means for a typical human is a big ???, especially if the default is "using other nicotine products" rather than "not using products containing nicotine"
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And ofc, ffs, fml, etc, because dose dependence is a whole thing and human beings don't usually bathe in nicotine saunas
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Anti-anti-vaping is getting me cross. Here's a new activity with NO long-term epidemiological data that's *already* putting a fair amount of people in the hospital with probably irreparable , and we're supposed to pretend it's all nothing?
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i don’t know if it’s nothing, but i do know this study is nothing
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