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I have been informed by the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work that the School and its research team that had been involved in th...

Two years ago, I explained why I think Anheuser-Busch InBev's Smart Drinking Goals program is a complete farce. Last year, I criticized...

In a decision that I applaud, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins announced yesterday that based on the recommendation of his Advisory Committe...

In another setback for the NIAAA's and alcohol industry's study of the "health benefits" of encouraging people to drink, A...

In an article published in the Summer 2018 issue of the Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine , two researchers at the Johns Hopkins Blo...

We're well into 2018 and there is now substantial research on the health effects of vaping as well as a decade of experience with large ...

At the House Appropriations Committee hearing on the NIH Budget, NIH director Dr. Francis Collins was grilled about the collusion between th...

I have already explained why I think the Moderate Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health (MACH15) clinical trial should be immediately halted be...

Digging Deeper into the Harvard/NIAAA Solicitation of Alcohol Company Funding In a previous post , I noted that I had reviewed materials o...

I used to think of the National Institutes of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) as a highly-reputed, objective, science-based agency whos...

Correspondence obtained as the result of my FOIA request to the NIAAA.

A new study presented Saturday at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) concludes that vaping cause...

Here is the link to my op-ed on the National Academy of Sciences report.

Here is the link to an article on WBUR that includes edited excerpts from an interview I did regarding the new National Academy of Sciences...

My commentary on the conclusions and implications of the National Academy of Sciences report on electronic cigarettes was just accepted as a...

The International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research (ISFAR) claims to be "an independent organization of scientists that prepares ...

I have already written about why I refused to participate in the activities of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, which I believe is es...

In a comment posted on Dr. Stan Glantz's blog yesterday, Dr. Thomas Eissenberg--a researcher studying electronic cigarettes at Virgini...

In what I believe is a clear ethics code violation, senior employees of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) have ...

Below is my response to an invitation to consult for the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, funded by Philip Morris International: Unfortu...

This month, the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) updated a chart purporting to show trends in youth tobacco use over the past 5 ...