Joe Gitchell
@jgitchell
Consult to Juul Labs on nicotine vapor for tobacco harm minimization.
Can confirm: this @snapcoalition.org webinar on using simulation models to inform policymakers was Tony the Tiger grrrreat! Wearing a @raygunsite.com shirt honoring the @amesnatlab.bsky.social seemed "fitting". #DayJob
Folks with interest in harm reduction broadly and nicotine issues specifically should find this webinar on Thursday at 1pm ET of interest. Please consider boosting @clairezagorski.bsky.social @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social @snapcoalition.org @cdelawalla.bsky.social @itaibavli.bsky.social 1/5
How does this Iowan prepare for @shikhadalmia.bsky.social and friends’ #LibCon2026 and the hot and steamy DC weather? ✅ @raygunsite.com #LocalMenace shirt ✅ Iowa Golf Association towel to mop up sweatiness. #winning
I *might* be able to like, respect, and seek to emulate enough this latest #ABraverWay 'cast from #BraverAngels where @monicaguzman.bsky.social interviews @glukianoff.bsky.social. But I doubt it. 1/2
I bigly recommend folks take in the re-boot of the #ABraverWay podcast from #MonicaGuzman with #AprilLawson. How do you know what you're doing is right? #DiscomfortOfThoughtAndHeart 1/2
Thank you for the thoughtful and important analysis. I've tried to post this comment, but it keeps getting dinged. Happy to provide links if helpful. 🙏 @jerryavorn.bsky.social
Throwback Sunday. Please see this @washumedicine.bsky.social summary of a 2003 @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social paper by Dr Walton Sumner (link in ALT) Twenty. Three. Years.
I thought of you with Peter Hajek's analogy, @dingdingpeng.the100.ci. www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...
And to pat myself on the back for my grace, below is the jacket I'm wearing today! #GoHawks
No worries if not, @profglantz.com, but if you do have thoughts in reply to my questions above, I welcome them. You always force me to think, a la this wisdom from @tamarhaspel.bsky.social.
I'm really enjoying the #ECigSummitUK today and was reminded of this commentary in #TobaccoControl that will be 25 years old next year. #HistoryMajor [Link in ALT text and open access]
Another SoMe platform reminded me to re-share this 4-panel comic as a memory. And, sadly, it feels timeless. But with so much hope! #UsNotThem
Happy Thanksgiving, Stan! Let me know if you'd be game to hop on a zoom and we could talk about these and other things. I recognize the asymmetry (on many levels!) but I'm a big fan of @tamarhaspel.bsky.social's guidance, below.
Indeed! But we're still going to end up needing to see the opthalmologist and the dentist before we're through. See excerpt from Haidt's The Righteous Mind:
#ButtSnorkeling is a term I don't know that I want, but it is a term that I need. H/T @thebulwark.com.
#DiscomfortOfThought required to #RethinkNicotine. Props to Adam Cifu of Sensible Medicine for sharing Brad Rodu's post, along with context about Dr Cifu's priors about the oral cancer risks from smokeless tobacco. Link follows. #TobRegSky 1/2
Nerds! Check this out from @behaviourresuk.bsky.social ! us02web.zoom.us/rest/webinar...
I couldn't resist adding a comment to @jeffmightbwrong.bsky.social's funny af commentary about groupthink (essentially)--link in second note. And in the spirit of a picture being worth a thousand words, you can skip my blather and just check out this gem from @grimmgreen.bsky.social. . 1/2
Tagging @yalesph.bsky.social and Dean @meganranney.bsky.social , too. And now I fear instead of just being a fascinating read, the book below book could become a how-to guide! Bonus points if you recognize the journal in the background.
I really think we need to pull lessons from this paper, led by Cory Clark. Health should NOT be partisan, and those who are committed to the health of all should read and heed. Think of what a powerful messenger SecHHS could be with the people most in need? osf.io/preprints/ps...
OpenAI's ChatGPT would steadfastly not create an image with Uncle Sam on both knees AND facing the PLA tank, and it kept trying to make the image more bilateral (sneaking in a US flag with PRC flags). Our $#*+uation may be worse than I had feared. #NIHobbling 4/4
THIS is why I always read to the end of the @raygunsite.com newsletter. And here I thought that Scope or Listerine was for gargling!
@drmjuneauicm.bsky.social hello! You might be scared away from me by my first bsky bleet on my profile (screenshot below--announcing my first retraction of a paper), but if not, please follow me back as I would like to send you a private note. 🙏