Noakes free at last, HPCSA licks its legal wounds
By Marika Sboros South African scientist Prof Tim Noakes is a free man. Noakes has won his final battle with the Health Professions Council of [more]
Association for Dietetics in SA
Noakes: Will academic mobsters silence him?
By Marika Sboros Will academic “mobsters” win their battle to muzzle Cape Town scientist Prof Tim Noakes? And how did the dietitian with a business [more]
Noakes: globally, doctors call on HPCSA to stop prosecuting him
By Marika Sboros Leading doctors and scientists in the US, Canada and Australia have signed an open letter to the Health Professions Council of South [more]
Noakes: HPCSA back on warpath, blocks evidence of a set-up
By Marika Sboros The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is back on the warpath against Prof Tim Noakes. It has announced an appeal [more]
Noakes: ‘HPCSA will lose new war against me’
By Marika Sboros The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is back on the warpath against Prof Tim Noakes. It has also thrown down [more]
Groundhog Day as the HPCSA goes after Noakes again
By Marika Sboros Groundhog Day or deja vue? Take your pick. The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has announced an appeal against its own [more]
ADSA – dealing with defeat in ‘Nutrition Trial of the 21st Century
By Marika Sboros If defeat is best seen through the lens of a life lesson, the leaders of the Association for Dietetics in South Africa [more]
Noakes not guilty, ‘did no harm, broke no laws’
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes has been found not guilty of unprofessional conduct for a single tweet in February 2014 saying that good first [more]
Noakes: did disgruntled dietitians set him up?
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes did not have a doctor-patient relationship with a breastfeeding mother on Twitter. His tweet caused no harm to her [more]
Noakes: elephant in the room proves he’s not guilty?
By Marika Sboros Prof Tim Noakes was guilty of unprofessional conduct on “a balance of probability”, advocate Ajay Bhoopchand argued in closing yesterday. He also [more]
Noakes – who ultimately holds the key to his fate
By Marika Sboros What – or who – is really behind the prosecution of scientist Prof Tim Noakes? Where did it actually start. Is it [more]
Noakes: did SA scientists deliberately aim to smear him?
By Marika Sboros Did researchers at top South African universities deliberately make multiple mistakes in a major study? Was their aim to discredit low-carbohydrate, high-fat [more]
Noakes guilty of ‘patience in face of profound silliness’
By Marika Sboros Psychiatry professor Michael Simpson is withering about the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) case against Prof Tim Noakes. Simpson is a [more]
ZINN: ‘UNETHICAL FOR DIETITIANS NOT TO OFFER LCHF’
By Marika Sboros Three things embarrass New Zealand-based dietitian and academic Dr Caryn Zinn most these days. At university, she never questioned what lecturers said [more]
Noakes trial: ‘Angel’ Harcombe aims at its heart
By Marika Sboros If South African scientist Prof Tim Noakes were enough to raise cardiologists’ blood pressure, British obesity researcher Dr Zoë Harcombe’s could raise [more]
HPCSA hitting more dead ends in its case against Noakes?
By Marika Sboros Something about scientist Prof Tim Noakes and his views on the role of carbohydrate and fat gets the Health Professions Council of [more]
HPCSA sinking in sea of own making against Noakes?
By Marika Sboros At the close of the first week of the fourth session of the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) hearing against scientist [more]
‘Dogs that didn’t bark’ – proof of innocence for Noakes?
By Marika Sboros There was more drama, intrigue and “dogs that didn’t bark” on day one of the trial of South African scientist Prof Tim [more]
Cardiologists: Noakes really is a ‘public health danger’!
By Marika Sboros University of Cape Town cardiologists believe that Prof Tim Noakes is a true “cholesterol denialist”. They made the accusation in an open [more]
Are cardiologists at the heart of the Noakes trial?
By Marika Sboros Could cardiologists be at the beating heart of the case against world-renowned scientist Prof Tim Noakes? The pun is intentional. Noakes raises [more]