Tobacco Harm Reduction: Sorting Truth

Time: 10:30 am - 10:45 am

Date: May 17 2022

may-17-2022 10:30 may-17-2022 10:45 Europe/London Tobacco Harm Reduction: Sorting Truth

We live in a saturated information environment (infosphere) that has both positive and negative consequences for parsing facts from fiction. This is also true for scientific endeavors, including so-called tobacco regulatory science and tobacco harm reduction science. Unfortunately, the tobacco science infosphere distorts and obscures scientific realities, and it is not clear that conventional scientific… Read more »

The E-Cigarette Summit USA

We live in a saturated information environment (infosphere) that has both positive and negative consequences for parsing facts from fiction. This is also true for scientific endeavors, including so-called tobacco regulatory science and tobacco harm reduction science. Unfortunately, the tobacco science infosphere distorts and obscures scientific realities, and it is not clear that conventional scientific processes and procedures are up to the task of sorting truth from falsehoods. I will discuss strengths and weaknesses of scientific peer review (publications and grant proposals), evidence reviews (quantitative, qualitative, authoritative), funding of research, and the role of science networks (e.g., societies). I will also speculate about ways to strengthen existing information systems as they continue to evolve.

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