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Links for June 2014
A links roundup post from June 2014 covering various topics from e-cigarettes and gender studies to technology and healthcare, with critical analysis of recent research and developments.
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A thread through the archive
e-cigarettes
Essays tagged “e-cigarettes”. Follow an idea across the archive.
Essays on e-cigarettes
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E-Cig Study: Much Smoke, Little Light
Scott Alexander criticizes a study on e-cigarette effectiveness for quitting smoking, explaining potential sampling bias that could skew the results.
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Thank you for doing something ambiguously between smoking and not smoking
Scott Alexander argues that e-cigarettes are likely replacing regular cigarettes rather than non-smoking, making them beneficial for public health despite government attempts to ban them.
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