Academic mobbing at UCT: a neverending story
By Marika Sboros Academic bullying or mobbing as it has become known is an ugly phenomenon. It’s a scourge, endemic in even the best universities [more]
Health Professions Council of SA
Wits ethics chief loses moral compass trying to silence a scientist?
By Marika Sboros Here’s an intriguing ethical and moral dilemma in the latest issue of the SAMJ (South African Medical Journal). It’s in an article [more]
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]
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: medical, scientific worlds watch as HPCSA decides his fate
By Marika Sboros South African scientist Prof Tim Noakes could know by the end of March if his regulatory body will fail in its last-ditch [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]
Did SA, UK scientists do something dodgy to silence a colleague?
By Marika Sboros Did South African scientists really do something scientifically dodgy to silence their colleague, Prof Tim Noakes? Did they draw a UK scientist [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]
Naudé Review: toxic brew of mistakes, mischief against Noakes?
By Marika Sboros The Naudé Review by South African scientists, published in PLoS One in 2014, was once the foundation of medical and dietetic opposition [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 to parents: Don’t feed cereals to your babies!
By Marika Sboros Parents should not feed cereals to their infants as first foods, says New Zealand-based dietitian and academic, Dr Caryn Zinn. Zinn (pictured right) said [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]