• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I wanted the study you claimed that data was faked on specifically as I recall. A doi, an authors name, a title? Willing to start this back up again - how about this for some terms of engagement?

    You share one study and your interpretation of it, and I’ll respond in kind? I’m very happy to read studies - a favorite way to tutor several topics is “let’s pull up a random study and analyze it.”

    Just to clarify your claims are:

    1. Nicotine is not harmful when ingested via vape/electronic cigarettes devices.
    2. There is a conspiracy on the part of the government, the tobacco industry, and research scientists to hide this fact.

    An earlier claim, that I think is categorically false and you thus must concede is: 3) The substance ingested is just water.

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      15 days ago

      A doi, an authors name, a title?

      I gave all that information in the exhaustive post you didn’t read: “Nicotine as a mitogenic stimulus for pancreatic acinar cell proliferation”, Chowdhury, doi: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i46.7428

      your claims

      Directionally accurate but too superlative. I’d modify them to be

      1. Nicotine is marginally harmful when ingested via vapes/electronic cigarettes, in the same ballpark as any number of harmful things people do daily with no furor about them, and exponentially less harmful than tobacco cigarettes.

      2. There is an overwhelmingly strong financial and social motivation for scientists and governments to hide this fact. I don’t believe anyone is literally conspiring in the sense of an evil mastermind plan, just a confluence of factors that make it unfeasible to release a study with conclusions contrary to the narrative.

      3. The substance exhaled is effectively just water vapor. That’s not a backtrack, that was my original claim.

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        15 days ago

        To clarify again, before I address any of your other claims -

        Is:

        “Nicotine as a mitogenic stimulus for pancreatic acinar cell proliferation”, Chowdhury, doi: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i46.7428

        the study which you claim faked data? If not, which study do you claim faked data?

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          15 days ago

          Yes. They cited “Unpublished studies from our laboratory” which is nothing. Being charitable, they actually did all the work and then just decided for the hell of it to not publish.

          As I said in my post:

          Their model is convincing enough: nicotine activates certain signaling pathways which starts a cascade effect causing out of control cell proliferation (aka cancer). But the first domino in that chain is literally “trust me, bro” with no published experimental data.