For those not familiar, UCSF denizen Malone is not so much the aggressive, calculating liar that some of her colleagues are. Failure to publish any results to back up paragraphs of waffle, or, in fact, any data at all, is apparently no problem at NPG. A growing body of literature suggests that social interactions may be important determinants of many youth behavioral outcomes. The authors communicated the message — repeated in the pop media headlines — that because this one chemical was present (again, hypothetically) at a higher level than in cigarettes, vaping is thus more harmful than smoking. Of course, given the quality of methods and logic published in Tobacco Control, this would be another case of damning someone by crediting them with it. Using PubMed, we searched five peer-reviewed journals that publish tobacco control empirical literature for the use of mixed methods research to study young populations, age 12–25 years. Basically every “policy implications” statement in a Tobacco Control research report could be prefaced with, “Even though we have not conducted any policy analysis and have no idea what actually works in the real world, and even though our conclusions do not really follow from our results and we certainly have no idea if they are supported by other evidence, we are going to use our little research project as an excuse to write unsupported declarations about our personal inexpert policy preferences, which are….” It would be bad enough if the journal just admitted that they let these through without review. Performance & security by Cloudflare, Please complete the security check to access. 06-6058, October 2006. For the latter, you have all the real scientists in general agreement and trying to work out the details, with the “controversy” coming from a disturbingly large number of adherents to some fictional stories, who believe — regardless of the science — that everything was concocted sometime in recent memory. He actually checks the reference list! Outcome and Process Evaluation of a School-Based, Informal, Adolescent Peer-Led Intervention to Reduce ... program such as tobacco control is not typically conducted because the scope of such an evaluation would . Funding Opportunity Alerts: Solicitation CG 21-10001, Information Clearinghouse for Tobacco Use Prevention. Few people now dispute that smoking is damaging human health on a global scale.1 However, many governments have avoided taking action to control smoking—such as higher taxes—because of concerns that their interventions might have harmful economic consequences, such as permanent job losses. At least Pankow and company did research that legitimately showed something — that the chemical profile of vapor changes in a particular unfortunate way if you get it way too hot, so try to avoid making that mistake — even though they apparently did not understand their own results. This means that accepted research papers submitted from September 2014 onwards usually have their prepublication history posted alongside them on thebmj… You can view it yourself, because it is open access, unlike their regular articles which they hide behind a paywall to inhibit real peer review (very few libraries subscribe to Tobacco Control, to their great credit). So someone who is an aggressive crusader against e-cigarettes is “objective and constructive”, huh? Tobacco Control Review Speed, Peer-Review Duration, Time from Submission to 1st Editorial/Reviewer Decision & Time from Submission to Acceptance/Publication You can view it yourself, because it is open access, unlike their regular articles which they hide behind a paywall to inhibit real peer review (very few libraries subscribe to Tobacco Control, to their great credit). Her reviews are incisive and offer creative ways to address manuscript weaknesses. Systematic reviews have a crucial role to play in this task. So apparently Tobacco Control‘s best toxicology reviewer does not understand the importance of dose, the fact that exposure and disease are not the same thing, the fact that comparing on isolated chemical across exposures is not useful, nor that if you cook something too hot, it gets yucky. In the present case, the “controversy” has a similar origin: a bunch of narrow-minded “believers” (like Choi and presumably most of the other honuuries) ignore or lie about the science when it does not fit their mythology. Tobacco control should be a social, public health, and quality-of-life concern rather than a business and trade issue. You can subscribe using one of the usual methods. 06-6085, May 2007. Tobacco manufacturer exploits FDA’s ambiguous ruling The emergence of new consumer tobacco and nicotine products, notably electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products,1 has produced controversy and confusion. Evaluating ASSIST: A Blueprint for Understanding State-level Tobacco Control. 1 . I am not sure anything Kelvin Choi has ever done was even that useful. I would like to say that Tobacco Control is uniquely awful and that standards are maintained by less partisan publications but in my experience this is no longer the case. (Oh, wait, it is a British publishing house, so that should be: “honouring their toup reviewers”.) Although tobacco control has been recognized as a top target for public health, tobacco use still remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death. For example, a study in New Zealand showed that tobacco sales declined with each increase in the number of articles on tobacco issues in daily newspapers (20). One implications of that is anyone who says “it is in a peer-reviewed journal, and therefore…” is utterly clueless. Which, again, sounds about right for Tobacco Control. Even if, hypothetically, his group had really discovered that this exposure happens under realistic conditions, everything that followed was toxicologically illiterate. Change ). Instead they communicated that it will give vapers cancer. But in this paragraph, Malone is suggesting that they actively engage with the nonsense before publishing it. The Institute of Health Promotion and Education endorses the urgent need for a new Tobacco Control Plan.1 Smoking is still the largest single preventable cause of ill health and death, and it causes extensive harm to individuals and society.2 Smoking is strongly associated with socioeconomic disadvantage. To view all BMJ Journal policies please refer to the BMJ Author Hub policies page. Peer review; Merete Osler, associate professor; Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ... the book fills a gap in the economics of tobacco control and the problems with smoking in developing countries. Thus, I am sure she does not realize just how embarrassing this was. I really would not want “personally responsible for the quality of the economic analysis published in Tobacco Control” to be part of my bio. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! With smoking increasingly confined to lower socio-economic groups, the tobacco control community has been urged to identify which population-level tobacco control interventions work in order to help tackle smoking-related health inequalities. Reading these and the rest of the huounors, you would notice that not a single one of them credits the reviewers with bringing research methodology or analytic skills beyond what they learned in their intro classes in school. ( Log Out /  New Glover-Phillips paper: “Potential effects of using non-combustible tobacco and nicotine products during pregnancy: a systematic review”. Moreover, they based the comparison on an assumption they buried, that someone is vaping copious quantities of overheated liquid, without establishing if this ever really happens. Background . However, even though this was Clive’s main criticism of Malone’s list, I would say that it ranks no higher than third on the list of why this list of hunours was an “own goal” (Clive’s words). Kelvin’s reviews of such manuscripts were described by a senior editor as always being timely, objective and constructive—no small challenge in a topic area that is fraught with controversy. There are several mentions of copyediting skills and correcting authors’ weak English, but no mention of correcting their statistical methods or logic. He rarely turns down a review, and re-reviews revised versions cheerfully. But given the choice between that and being “credited” with the quality of the content in Tobacco Control (or, indeed, most any “public health” journal), invisibility would be the wise choice. Methods . Science Lesson: what are vapor, aerosol, particles, liquids, and such? That is the only way that crowdsourced review can be forced on the “public health” people, who are not interested in real reviews and thus will not be changing their approach voluntarily. Maybe this is an example of that “wit” Malone gushes about. He showed great intrepidity in arriving for work on time most days, his dedication to giving customers the correct amount of change was perfectly adequate, and he performed all his other duties with a single-minded commitment to sloth and mediocrity. The third is, “Comments consider methods, structure of the paper and its importance to the field.” I am not sure which is sadder: the suggestion that actually analyzing the content is no more important than tone or meeting arbitrary deadlines, or that analyzing the methods and structure of the paper is considered a characteristic of a particularly good review for Tobacco Control rather than just being a minimum standard for something to be counted as a review at all. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Each trainee meets regularly with a faculty mentor regarding research progress and career or professional issues. Two are, “The comments are phrased in ways that are constructive,” and “The review is submitted on time.” Meh. This is partly because the two products are often conflated, not least by Philip Morris International, the world’s largest tobacco company.2 With global sales of … Clive has been waging a campaign to get a different magazine (the NEJM) to retract a paper by Pankow that inaccurately claimed that e-cigarettes produce a dangerous level of formaldehyde, and that this makes vaping more hazardous than smoking (see: these posts). Well, I suppose that in spite of his obvious political views, which permeate his “research”, it is possible that when writing an anonymous journal review that will never be subject to any critical assessment he has the integrity to… hahaha — sorry, I just can’t finish that sentence. (As I said: hapless.). Pal review anyone? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. I could understand how it happened, in that the authors had failed to mention something that makes their findings very probably unsafe, but having brought the matter to their attention, I expected the NPG editorial team to take my criticism seriously. “Bob was a somewhat important member of our team here at Jimmy Joe’s Tractor Supply. The landmark 1964 Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health began a process of public education, programmatic and policy intervention, litigation, and social norm change that has revolutionized how most Americans view tobacco use, and in particular cigarette smoking. Only some form of open peer review — crowdsourcing and all that — has any hope of success in all but the narrowest fields. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Every year, cigarette smoking results in estimated 443,000 premature deaths, of which about 49,400 occur in non-smokers due to the exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) (2). FDA "regulation" of e-cigarettes would not actually be regulation, New Glover-Phillips paper: "Potential effects of using non-combustible tobacco and nicotine products during pregnancy: a systematic review", Sunday Science Lesson: Smoking protects against COVID-19, but most of the related "science" is badly misguided, The bright side of new Glantz "meta-analysis": at least he left aerospace engineering, "We were wrong about this" trANTZlates into "we were still right, just for another reason", Supposed THR supporter demonstrates he still thinks like an ANTZ. NIH Publication No. But Pankow’s more fundamental failing in that fiasco was not his engineering, but his toxicology, the supposed expertise that Malone credits him with. Cloudflare Ray ID: 605e0c311da53871 Kelvin Choi: E-cigarette research manuscripts have become more frequent submissions as these products emerge as a public health challenge. This protocol received input from the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tobacco Control Advisory Group. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Researchers found tobacco-specific changes at 26 sites on the epigenome, and this pattern predicted prenatal exposure with 81 percent accuracy. Unemployed … Tobacco Control adheres to the highest standards concerning its editorial policies on publication ethics, scientific misconduct, consent and peer review criteria. Peer review in “public health” — Tobacco Control journal own-goal edition, Tobacco harm reduction, anti-THR lies, and related topics, Utter innumeracy: six impossible claims about tobacco most “public health” people believe before breakfast, Utter innumeracy: six impossible claims about tobacco most “public health” people believe before breakfast | Anti-THR Lies and related topics, The Elitist, Biased Tobacco Control Journal |, The unfortunate case of the Cochrane Review of vaping-based smoking cessation trials, Sunday Science Lesson: Smoking protects against COVID-19, but most of the related “science” is badly misguided. Your IP: 51.81.73.219 They really should have hidden this one from scrutiny too. ( Log Out /  The paper has been criticized mainly on the grounds that Pankow et al. But the really telling bit here is about political and policy implications. The FDA’s Misplaced Priorities: Premarket Review Under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Anyway, you get the idea.) Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. ( Log Out /  But I am not entirely sure why you would want to publicize that. Please enable Cookies and reload the page. In particular, I have noted that it is clear that the journal gatekeeping model of peer review, which was briefly just fine in the 20th century, is now outmoded and cannot work for a variety of reasons. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Introduction: The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) was the first health treaty that requires state parties to adopt and implement the MPOWER package. If you are an administrator for Tobacco Control, please get in touch to find out how you can verify the contributions of your editorial board members and more. The modest donations help support the content here too. Sunday Science Lesson: How are deaths counted (for pandemics, smoking, etc.)? I was recently horrified by a very poor example of tobacco control junk science produced by activists posing as scientists that appeared in a Nature Publishing Group journal . And thanks again to those of you who have already done this. 18. Stop illicit trade of tobacco products is the theme for tomorrow's World No Tobacco Day. Malone refers to journal reviewers as “generally invisible” and “unheralded”, which is true. We systematically reviewed the independent effects of TC policies on smoking behavior. Policymakers need estimates of the impact of tobacco control (TC) policies to set priorities and targets for reducing tobacco use. This is YOUR website as all the content on it is created by YOU—the pipe smoker. If we cannot trust the likes of NPG then perhaps we should accept that rationality is dead and look forward to a post enlightenment era in which authors can write pretty much what they like provided that it is “on message” Perhaps Tobacco Control is ahead of its time and science, honesty and honour are superfluous to requirements in modern public health publishing. I have written extensively about peer review, of course. 17. That sounds a lot more like the job of a press office than of a scientific reviewer. I have no doubt he will make a valuable addition to your organization.”, Pingback: Utter innumeracy: six impossible claims about tobacco most “public health” people believe before breakfast | Anti-THR Lies and related topics, Pingback: The Elitist, Biased Tobacco Control Journal |. Malone goes on to list three characteristics that she thinks define a good review. Posts will be announced in the primary author's Twitter: @carlvphillips. And if they are someone familiar with the process rather than a naive outside observer, they are also a liar. apparently used a set-up that subjected the e-cigarette liquid to an unrealistically high temperature, one that a properly-functioning high-quality e-cigarette would never reach and that produces an aerosol that is so acrid that no one would actually vape it. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. This scoping review protocol describes the approach to an investigation of the explicit use of implementation science in planning and/or delivering tobacco control interventions in the USA to reduce the prevalence of preventable diseases and deaths. I now have no faith whatsoever in NPG’s peer review or editorial processes. Oh, and you should publish — one way or another — your critique of that paper. 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