“An article produced by the Kentucky Centre for Smoke-free Policy has prompted a bitter Stanton Glantz into revealing his unapologetic feelings over a retraction of one of his papers. Called “fraudulent”, his deeply flawed paper on vaping’s impact on the heart was pulled by The Journal of American Heart Association. Scientists who do not comment on vaping matters joined in a call to have it retracted – something the journal resolutely refused to do for eight months. Glantz refused to let people examine his work and ended up not just with egg on his face, but also managed to get banned from using the PATH data in future – and succeeded in getting his colleagues and institution banned into the bargain. At a time where Stan is running low on friends, the Kentucky Centre for Smoke-free Policy has leapt to his defence. Why would it do this? It receives its funding from the State’s declining Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement income”
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