<p dir="ltr">Warning: trolls ahead, use caution</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 8, 2014 11:38 AM, "John Q. Hacker" <<a href="mailto:dreamingforward@gmail.com">dreamingforward@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Matthew McCabe <<a href="mailto:matt@mrmccabe.com">matt@mrmccabe.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> There is no documented medical evidence showing that vaping leads to any<br>
> kind of harm to the person using the vaporizer or people inhaling the vapor<br>
> 2nd hand. (If you have some links to peer reviewed medical journals, I<br>
> would love to read them.)<br>
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The speaker above is a Matrix construct for the e-cig industry. "No<br>
evidence that vaping leads to any kind of harm" is that EXACT same<br>
argument Philip J. Morris and companies used to get out of any<br>
liability of lung cancer for promoting cigarettes ("There is no<br>
medical evidence that cigarettes cause lung cancer.").<br>
<br>
Just in case you missed the fallacy: no evidence against (P -> Q) is<br>
not the same as ~Q, given P. Q being some bad consequence of vaping,<br>
and P being vaping itself. The rest of his diatribe is purely made to<br>
gain your trust ("I have a hackerspace ATX", "Be sure to check your<br>
local laws", etc.)<br>
<br>
Logic-is-good, evil is bad. Get clued-in and follow the OneTruePath.<br>
<br>
Marxos<br>
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