Carl V Phillips's epistemic musings
Carl V Phillips, PhDSciencey and philosophy stuff by an epidemiologist/economist/philosopher of science/intellectual wanderer. Mostly about what might be called "methodology", though I will include some topic specific stuff including about tobacco harm reduction.
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Imposing fees/taxes for electric vehicles and household solar generators is not absurd or unfair
I have seen some rants lately about the proposal in the US to impose a fee (tax) on electric vehicles. As you might guess the script runs, “something something...punishing people for trying to save the planet!...Trump is evil...utterly craz...
Preview of upcoming commentary on quantifying the number of vapers in the world
I have a forthcoming invited commentary paper (which I believe will officially be a letter to the editor for technical reasons) at Global Epidemiology, which is bogged down because the enormously profitable academic publishing house’s submi...
The meaninglessness of claiming tobacco/nicotine is addictive
My 15yo recently asked me why people use the word “addicted” when they clearly just mean “likes it a lot”. I told him I would provide an answer to this very astute question for him on Substack because, apparently, I am weird.
The first lay...
Michael J. McFadden (1951-2025) and the fight for smokers’ rights / tobacco harm reduction
I found out about the December death of my friend and tireless campaigner for smokers’ rights (among other human rights), Michael McFadden, several weeks after it happened. Some friend, huh? We fell out of touch when my health was consuming...
“Deaths caused by...” statistics for smoking and many other causes are nonsense
While I think about some bigger analyses, an in-spirit sequel to my previous quick lesson. It is difficult to post a random lesson in the midst of a developing crisis (and specifically unpleasantly ironic here given the subject matter). But...
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Epidemiologist, economist, health scientist, philosopher of science. UU. Harm reduction advocate. Former medical/public health prof. Amateur historian, ethicist, strategic analyst, television critic.
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