The is the personal site for Clive Bates. 
I am now establishing my own new enterprise based on thinking, communicating and doing in support of progressive causes – providing a benign but forceful challenge to orthodoxy in environment, energy, public health, sustainability and international development.
Until recently I was a civil servant, a Director General with the Welsh Government then on secondment to the Department of Energy and Climate Change. However, all views on this site are strictly my own – and I do not speak here for past employers.
These are my employers and institutions to date:
- Department for Energy and Climate Change
- Welsh Government
- UNEP Sudan
- Environment Agency
- Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit – Cabinet Office
- ASH – Action on Smoking and Health
- International Institute for Energy Conservation (Europe)
- Greenpeace
- Imperial College
- IBM (UK) Ltd
- Emmanuel College, Cambridge
My profile on LinkedIn has a more complete CV
I just came across your website, I own a Vape shop in Tupelo Mississippi. I have an presentation today in front of the Chamber of Commerce about my business and of course I shall include all the false information about Vaping!! Cannot believe the New England Journal of Medicine……hmmm who paid them off???? Yes is old news, but very much new for me considering I just seen your awesome letter to them. Appreciate all you do.
[…] Clive Bates was cited by speaker Brian Fojik as an importance e-cigarette pro voice. Clive Bates, as was guest speaker Victoria Vasconcellos, was appointed to the newly created external CASAA Board of Advisor. In the past Bates served as a Director General with the Welsh Government and also in its Department of Energy and Climate Change. In September of 2014, Clive Bates contributed this fine article to the “Pharmaceutical Journal” (A Royal Pharmaceutical Society Publication): Stop demonizing a potentially useful product for smokers. […]
[…] propagate his research as scientific, he has actually drawn quite a bit of criticism from others. Clive Bates, an advocate for analytics who believes in getting past the ‘rhetoric’ of campaigners, has […]
[…] Clive Bates is a well-known advocate of e-cigs. He has been running the Countertruthual blog since 2012 and offering excellent insight into the treatment of vaping by politicians and public health figures. He has offered to publicly debate the topic with Professors Glantz, McKee and Chapman (vocal ecig opponents) but they have not replied to his invitation. […]
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