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The 'sheen of respectability' that surrounds chiropractic
“When you ask most people to name some examples of pseudoscience or quackery, they’ll usually mention homeopathy, or reiki, or herbology,” writes MedicalBrief columnist...
Big Pharma and naturopathy — 'unholy allies' in the supplementation scam
15For healthy adults, there is absolutely no benefit to taking multivitamins, writes MedicalBrief columnist Alastair McAlpine. But slick marketing, wishful thinking, and medical doctors...
Noakes: I am not anti-vax and McAlpine knows it
In his most recent non-peer reviewed blog post representing his personal opinion masquerading as a “scientific” article, Dr Alastair McAlpine (and his assistant) continues...
McAlpine: Noakes spread dangerous and untrue information about vaccines
The recent Digital Clubbing column on anti-vaxxers, was not primarily about Professor Tim Noakes, writes Alastair McAlpine. 'But it necessarily included him because, any...
Aided by the likes of Noakes, anti-vaxxers are causing real damage
It’s easy to make fun of the anti-vaccination lobby, writes Alastair McAlpine, in his Digital Clubbing column on MedicalBrief. But the anti-vaxxers, with the...
A smorgasbord of pseudo-science but lessons for GPs
Integrative Medicine (IM) is an expensive smorgasbord of pseudoscience, writes Alastair McAlpine, in his Digital Clubbing column on MedicalBrief. But there are lessons here...
The simple but profound values of dying children in their final days
'How could anyone want to do your job?' These are words I hear frequently, from patients, from my friends, from strangers on the internet....
McAlpine and Noakes were treated 'equally fairly'
MedicalBrief was right not be 'bullied' by Professor Tim Noakes on the issue of withdrawing Dr Alastair's Digital Clubbing column, writes a counselling psychologist...
Noakes: 'A litany of specious comments and errors'
"The 10 January edition of MedicalBrief carried a critique of the book written by myself and Marika Sboros, entitled Lore of Nutrition</em," writes emeritus...
Sboros: ‘Unsubstantiated negative opinions'
"Often, what reviewers don't say about a book reveals more about their motivation than what they do say," writes Marika Sboros, journalist and co-author...