@jgitchell
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Consult to Juul Labs on nicotine vapor for tobacco harm minimization.
Bethesda, MD
Joined June 2008
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"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win." John Paul Jones #USPassportQuotes
Joe Gitchell retweeted
Excellent opportunity to learn how to he a consumer of science.
The University of Alberta’s free online critical thinking and science literacy course to help people differentiate science from pseudoscience:
ualberta.ca/en/admissions-pr…
Joe Gitchell retweeted
Washington saw this coming in 1796.
Party spirit doesn't just create disagreement — it manufactures suspicion, distorts what the "other side" actually believes, and turns fellow citizens into enemies.
Disagreement is fine. Disdain is the problem.
Walking around Paris and relying on the same imperfect method is yielding the same results.
@RAYGUNshirts FTW!
#replication
Not a pre-registered or proper analysis, but convenience sample at @Dulles_Airport indicates that my choice of @RAYGUNshirts to travel internationally is top notch.
Allons-y, @SRNT_Europe !
ALT Joe in "Not an Asshole Just American" t-shirt
#StayCurious
Are GLP-1s Changing the Equation for Food Marketing? - ConscienHealth conscienhealth.org/2026/09/1…
I don't know if there's an #Ouchtown in Australia, but maybe there should be?
From @jamomartin @edjegasothy.
#MakeNewMistakes
"305 firebombings and billions of dollars extracted from Australia’s most marginalised citizens, is a strange price to pay for saving face."
James Martin & Edward Jegasothy
#auspol #tobacco
michaelwest.com.au/a-levy-on…
Joe Gitchell retweeted
The AI industry sounded an existential alarm -- and the House went home. Hoping Washington will save us? Have a nice doomsday. My latest @washingtonsun column.
washingtonsun.com/perspectiv…
Not a pre-registered or proper analysis, but convenience sample at @Dulles_Airport indicates that my choice of @RAYGUNshirts to travel internationally is top notch.
Allons-y, @SRNT_Europe !
ALT Joe in "Not an Asshole Just American" t-shirt
🚨#DiscomfortOfThought WARNING🚨
Depending on your priors, this might sting a little.
Mike Bloomberg's gift to Big Tobacco
His opposition to safer nicotine products keeps people smoking
By @MarcGunther
marcgunther.substack.com/p/m…
Joe Gitchell retweeted
Today is Friday – September 18, 2026 & this is your daily reminder:
💡 "You cannot HATE others into believing what you believe & you cannot HATE them into seeing the world the way you do"
Listening to @etterjf might afford you the opportunity to get less wrong.
Moral panic makes #nicotine policy louder but not smarter. It pushes debate towards fear, urgency and symbolic restriction, while the harder questions about #smoking relative risk and consumer behaviour get pushed aside.
gfn.tv/vids/when-happens-whe…
Joe Gitchell retweeted
Two years ago, I founded a health policy think tank built around the ideas that people should have more freedom to pursue their own health and well-being, and that physicians, entrepreneurs, etc., should have more freedom to build/produce/deliver the kinds of things that provide value to that end. If you're interested in how it's going, follow along.
Joe Gitchell retweeted
Gift link here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Gift link* to @business @BW article from @sashadm27 on the vibe that people who vape are using analog cigs to stop vaping.
Includes expert input from @vtcenterbh's Eli Klemperer.
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Joe Gitchell retweeted
The story of how the LOTR movies got made is an under-rated miracle. Peter Jackson was a schlock horror indie dork with 1 serious movie on his resume (Heavenly Creatures) when he pitched the Lord of the Rings trilogy
He pulled in insanely talented VFX artists by basically saying "hey, want to work on Lord of the Rings?" He made the trilogy on a comparative shoe-string budget (less than $100 million per movie).
He was absolutely terrified of the movies crashing and burning so he kept close to the book (especially for the first movie). He thought "we need the existing fans to come, we have no hope of success without the fans".
Everything came together for the LOTR movies, from tech advances to financing to the perfect actors. It was a project of love from the perfect director who was in love with his island home which just so happened to be the best spot on Earth to stand in for Middle Earth.
If you believe in miracles, the LOTR movies were a miracle. Every perfect thing came together at the right moment with the right people.
Joe Gitchell retweeted
The First Amendment starts with a pretty radical bet: people can be trusted with ideas, even bad ones.
That experiment has worked out pretty well.
Happy Constitution Day to the amendment built on the unfashionable idea that nobody gets the final word on what may be said!
Gift link* to @business @BW article from @sashadm27 on the vibe that people who vape are using analog cigs to stop vaping.
Includes expert input from @vtcenterbh's Eli Klemperer.
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Joe Gitchell retweeted
Blackberry = not a berry
Raspberry = not a berry
Strawberry = not a berry
Banana = a berry
Cuttlefish = not a fish
Starfish = not a fish
Jellyfish = not a fish
Seahorse = a fish
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Take a look if you appreciate having beliefs informed by evidence and insight.
If you'd rather wallow in comfortable existing prejudgments, you'd be better off avoiding. 🤪
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Joe Gitchell retweeted
Two neighbors quit speaking years ago over how to farm.
Then the frost came for both of them the same night.
Who likes likes a good parable?
Sure seems like somebody needs to read @JuliaMinson's How To Disagree Better and quickly!! D'oh!
Can Scientific Sessions Be Viable Without Scientists? - ConscienHealth conscienhealth.org/2026/09/1…
The Great Pumpkin confronts the Continuum of Risk.
Let @Skips_Corner @imaracingmom bend your brain a bit.
And while Charlie Brown usually was exasperated when he uttered "Good Grief", @SaraBareilles's album of the same name is tearfully uplifting.
While the intention of preventing youth initiation of adult products is honorable, is there an ethical issue if the messaging isn't accurate? @DKWright7News @WTRF7News