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Real food on trial: sit back, listen to the full story

14th Nov 2019 Marika 3

By Marika Sboros Real Food On Trial is now available on audio from US-based Tantor Media. The sub-title speaks volumes: How The Diet Dictators Tried [more]

Academic mobbing at UCT: a neverending story

13th Sep 2019 Marika 3

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]

Wits ethics chief loses moral compass trying to silence a scientist?

9th Jul 2018 Marika 10

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

10th Jun 2018 Marika 34

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?

19th Mar 2018 Marika 34

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

26th Feb 2018 Marika 14

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

20th Feb 2018 Marika 14

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

19th Feb 2018 Marika 23

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]

Dr Evelyne Bourdua-Roy: Canada’s Tim Noakes?

17th Oct 2017 Marika 20

By Marika Sboros Quebec family physician Dr Èvelyne Bourdua-Roy could become “Canada’s Tim Noakes”. Bourdua-Roy’s regulatory body, the Quebec College of Physicians, is investigating her [more]

Noakes: ‘HPCSA will lose new war against me’

11th Oct 2017 Marika 42

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]

red meat

Lifestyle medicine: Big Religion’s new front in old war on red meat?

9th Aug 2017 Marika 28

By Marika Sboros Lifestyle medicine sounds benign enough. By design or default, it may also be a cover for Big Religion’s new front  in its [more]

Did SA, UK scientists do something dodgy to silence a colleague?

17th Jul 2017 Marika 18

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

Groundhog Day as the HPCSA goes after Noakes again

14th May 2017 Marika 25

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

4th May 2017 Marika 7

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’

22nd Apr 2017 Marika 52

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]

Tim Noakes

Noakes: did disgruntled dietitians set him up?

10th Apr 2017 Marika 8

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?

5th Apr 2017 Marika 27

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

28th Mar 2017 Marika 23

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?

2nd Dec 2016 Marika 22

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’

17th Nov 2016 Marika 5

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]

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