Clive Bates

One hundred specialists call for WHO to change its hostile stance on tobacco harm reduction - new letter to FCTC delegates published. clivebates.com/one-hundred-sp… #COP9 @DrTedros 1/2

What happens when the stupid lead the blind? Should foundations be giving naive activist idealists more power and money to campaign when they have no knowledge or experience of the industry they are attacking? Worse, these zealots don't care how many deaths their activism causes.

In a recent webinar, none of the participants had worked in industry and their comments revealed they had no idea what industry was. This is a common failure with NGOs. @zaruk shows how consequences of attacks on industry by ignorant actors can be serious. thefirebreak.org/p/the-activist…

@bjames280961 @ret_ward We are not just spending money, but committing vast irreversible future expenditure through 20 year fixed price renewables contracts for difference and grid extensions to support them.

@Clive_Bates @ret_ward Or maybe it will fail because it will become and obviously pointless thing to do at a global level. But, yes, there's a lot of time and money to be wasted before that pointlessness is acknowledged.

“Scrap net zero and embrace more death and destruction from wildfires, flooding, heatwaves and droughts.”

@GutoOwenH2 @ret_ward I’ll try; 1. Successful adaptation to inevitable warming this century 2. Land-use and consumption-based emissions mitigation at a rate consistent with public buy-in to the actual policies, pathways and costs 3. Stop relying on superficial buy-in to a distant single datapoint.

@Clive_Bates @ret_ward If it’s true of the UK, it’s 20x truer - and hurting - in Wales. Reducing territorial emissions is whack-a-mole climate policy. We should ask ourselves, what is our most meaningful contribution towards a global challenge without inducing self-harm?

I've been quoted at @Filtermag_org about UK's plans for vaping: “If the government intended to create a policy designed to confirm misconception [about vapes] in the minds of the public, the proposals they have suggested are exactly what they would do”. filtermag.org/plain-packagin…

Thank you @NannyFreeState @Clive_Bates and @MOates_ for speaking to me:

The government launched a 12-week public consultation seeking “views on proposals for vapes and nicotine products,” such as limiting colors of vaping devices to white, black or gray, and heated tobacco products to a “drab brown color.” By @KiranSidhu51: filtermag.org/plain-packagin…

"Banned, yet a click away: India's underground vape market thrives despite 7 years of prohibition." "Despite raids and seizures, vapes continue to be sold through websites, social media accounts, encrypted messaging platforms, neighborhood retailers and informal delivery networks. Public-health advocates argue that enforcement has failed to keep pace with the increasingly decentralized nature of the trade." moneycontrol.com/news/business/…

@BarbaraRich_law Beautifully and evocatively written and a model of accessible clarity on the law (at least for this non-lawyer).

My recent substack post on the dispute and its history @bleakhouserevisited/note/p-202796926?r=3zlrnj&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@bleakhouserev…

A first swim for several years with the ducks and moorhen at Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond. Beneath its still and tranquil surface, litigation about its admissions policy awaits the new legal year in the autumn

@cjsnowdon Wait… doesn’t all of civilisation depend on fossil fuels, without which billions would die within a few months? Or are they not doing “benefits” in this paper?

The slippery slope in action. We banned tobacco ads so we should ban gambling ads so we should ban airline ads so we should ban... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13…

In closing, @MarcGunther writes, "I’ll give the last word to the estimable @Clive_Bates, a tireless advocate for tobacco harm reduction, who brings us back to the “merchants of doubt” theme:" open.substack.com/pub/marcgunthe…

🚨When frequency & inertia limits and safety margin breaches are met with denial and obfuscation, you know NESO is facing a serious credibility outage. Whistleblowers have gone to the Shadow Energy Secretary with concerns about grid security. What is going on? A thread 🧵(1/13)

@7Kiwi Ministers have imposed a cult of conformity among officials, regulators, and system managers. When the inevitable disaster happens, the inquiry will find that politicians counted constructive dissonance as seditious disloyalty. It all flows from that.

7 strikes against NESO credibility: 1 Whistleblowers lack confidence in NESO 2 Investigation scope 3 Denigrating whistleblowers 4 Frequency incidents 5 Summer EMNs indicate poor preparedness 6 Low inertia and missing data 7 Reducing inertia targets. The pattern is clear (11/13)

@miroirdufou @jk_rowling Beira’s Place “exists primarily to exclude trans…” Really? That’s its main purpose? What about sheltering women from violent, abusive men? What about empathy and reassurance? Narcissistic trans activists reframe everything to make themselves the story. IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU.

@jk_rowling Beira's Place exists primarily to exclude trans women. It's a part of your long-term agenda to remove rights of non-discrimination, equality, safety, & bodily autonomy from trans women. It's as if you'd set up a school for white kids only because you think immigrants violent.

I’m often tickled by press articles asserting that I’m furious about things that actually gave me a proper belly laugh. This time, though, knock yourselves out. Amnesty’s attack on Beira’s Place has left me burning with the kind of fury that mounts with every passing hour.

@ArielleSelya It’s a shame you have to spend time on other work. This is brilliant!

New Substack presenting arguments against "youth vaping epidemic" claims. Part of my #GFN26 presentation on "Debunking the science used to support prohibition": arielleselyaphd.substack.com/p/fact-sheet-a…

Harm reduction expert Clive Bates has schooled Professor Chris Whitty on Twitter/X about the UK Government’s plans to push forward with dangerous changes to vape laws planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-ne… @CMO_England @Clive_Bates #vape #vapingnews #plainpackaging #harmreduction

@LivePippas Tax cuts are justified as the taxes are regressive and penalise law-abiding behaviour. But I doubt the legal cigarette market is coming back. The only way is to “move on” rather than “move back” - an assertive government-led migration to proportionately-regulated safer products.

The Govt seem to be clueless 🙈 on why they can't control the massive illicit tobacco disaster. Which of the following would help curb illicit tobacco?

Even this huge Gulf energy shock hasn’t had much lasting economic effect despite dire warnings. But the cost of renewables hardware, backup power, system cost of intermittency, and enormous grid expansion costs are large and rising. Just because we know the costs are coming doesn’t make it a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuel shocks. And lengthy weather-related shocks are also possible.

Not a great time for Tories to double down on their policy to maintain the UK’s exposure to fossil energy shocks Slowing down the replacement of oil & gas with clean energy raises costs