There has been too much negative focus and regulation on bazookas, when most harms are associated with a core of irresponsible bazooka users who engage in problem bazookaing. It's about the user, not the product. Failure to appreciate this serves no-one. #CDoH 🧵 The bazooka industry stands ready to partner on solutions. They have sponsored research that seeks to accurately define problem bazookaing, and psychology behind it. They keep it independent by funding BazookAware, a wholly independent charity that focuses on bazooka education.

It is great to see renewed debate around the role of companies in shaping food environments in UK @DoctorChrisVT. I think it's important to consider how these companies shape evidence, social norms, and policy priorities. There is good science on this undeniably huge impact 🧵 First, some of the largest such companies are far from stewards of science, tech or evidence! Many of the claims they make in policy spheres have been found to be unevidenced, or over-rely on studies they funded themselves, but failing to disclose this: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

This is an example of the strategic value of industry-funded alcohol information charities.The Scotch Whisky Association, as the spear tip of wider industry opposition, has spent years opposing evidence-based alcohol policy, including through legal action on MUP. #CDoH 🧵 After MUP was voted into law (ie, democracy worked), industry (represented by SWA) took the government all the way to the Supreme Court in an effort to get it overturned, and succeeded in getting it delayed through that time bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 "Meat, money and messaging: How the environmental and health harms of red and processed meat consumption are framed by the meat industry". Thanks to the fantastic @DrKathrynClare for leading us on this #CDOH paper. A short thread 🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Reducing meat consumption has both health and environmental benefits, as highlighted by the Lancet EAT commission: eatforum.org/eat-lancet-com…

⚡️ New paper just out from our research group! "Manufacturing doubt: Assessing the effects of independent vs industry-sponsored messaging about the harms of fossil fuels, smoking, alcohol, and sugar sweetened beverages" #CDOH @SPECTRUMRes sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵below! Background: We know that harmful product manufacturers, most notably tobacco, have sought to dispute the evidence on the harms they cause, to stall public support for effective policy and prevent informed customers from steering clear of their products

The news about @PHE_uk being replaced by an infection-disease-focused body is at odds with some of the main lessons emerging from #COVID19 in the US. Some thoughts (thread) 1/10 Health is largely shaped by our physical and social environments, pandemic or not. That is why we see 30 year differences in life expectancy between the most and least affluent zip codes, and why COVID deaths are so disproportionate too 2/10