On my Substack this week...

... I scoffed at some Australian quackademics who were flown in to Scotland to tell us to copy their disastrous anti-vaping policies.

 

Now, I never took the course to call myself a ‘public health professional’ but you’d think it would be best practice to copy the countries where smoking is going down and underage smoking is going down rapidly rather than the country where smoking is not going down and underage smoking is going up. But what do I know?

 

And I had a laugh at what passes for science among those who want to treat ultra-processed food like tobacco.

 

Notice that one defining characteristic is the pursuit of profit. Companies who make ultra-processed food want to maximise their profits, whereas other food companies feed us out of the goodness of their hearts. Adam Smith famously praised the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer and the baker!

 

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