Noakes misses the point

Noakes misses the point.

'My advice was evidence based'- Noakes.

322 April 2016, Vol. 106, No. 4 The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) this February closed its case against University of Cape Town emeritus professor Tim Noakes on a charge of unprofessional conduct and will resume with cross-examination of the controversial A-rated scientist on 17 October. Noakes was allegedly unprofessional in giving unconventional, non-evidence-based advice...

Going Cashless at the Point of Sale: Hits and Misses in Developed Countries

The penetration of bank accounts among the • population. The weak business case for deploying a • sufficiently dense network of acceptance terminals (automated teller machines [ATMs] or point-of-sale [POS] devices) in environments with low economic activity or population density. The cost of communications underpinning the • real-time authorization of payments, in markets with limited communica...

Adverse effects of the ‘Noakes’ diet on dyslipidaemia

There has been much hype and controversy over the so-called 'Noakes' diet. This diet advocates a low-cardohydrate, high-fat and high-protein intake. As previously reported in the Journal, Noakes has expressed the view that this diet coupled with exercise could have a favourable impact on lipid levels and potentially avoid the need for drug therapy. In that same report, it was noted that this ha...

What principlism misses.

Principlism aims to provide a framework to help those working in medicine both to identify moral problems and to make decisions about what to do. For it to meet this aim, the principles included within it must express values that all morally serious people share (or ought to share), and there must be no other values that all morally serious people share (or ought to share). This paper challenge...