My memory is back from the tobacco denialist days...
...and has nothing to do with any recent piece in Vanity Faire (which I have not read) or any other source.
Not sure where I'm supposed to go with that. I posted a reference that said it wasn't true, including from the scientist's own mouth. What source would you accept?
You did not post a source that said that what I claimed was not true. In fact your source confirmed part of what I claimed. Read it again.