Martin Wallace
Martin Wallace is a retired physician with special training in kidney diesease and its management, and a degree in pharmacology in addition to the MB., ChB. Since retirement he has had time to resume his education in other fields.
Martin Wallace
Vitamin C is essential to human health, but our understanding of its role has been perverted by practitioners of 'alternative' medicine. The 18th-century discovery that oral citrus juice can protect ... (3244 words)
Category: Features
- alternative health treatments - cancer - drug testing - alternative medicine - vitamins -Martin Wallace
The Believing Brain: how we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths by Michael Shermer. Times books, New York. 386pp. ISBN 978-0-8050-9125-0. Reviewed by Martin Wallace. Aa a member of NZ ... (456 words)
Category: Reviews
- book - history - scientific method - critical appraisal - investigation -Martin Wallace
The Moral Landscape: How Science can Determine Human Values. Sam Harris. 2010. Free Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-4391-7121-9 Reviewed by Martin Wallace. If faith is belief without evidence, then it is ... (390 words)
Category: Reviews
- education - human nature - scientific explanations - investigation -Martin Wallace
Chiropractic has had a colourful history since its invention in the 19th Century. Chiropractic has had an extraordinary history, but the vehement response of its practitioners to criticisms of its ... (2981 words)
Category: Features
- biographies - chiropractors - disease - alternative medicine - spinal manipulation - treatment -Truth is the daughter of time, and not of authority: Aspects of the Cartwright Affair
August 1, 2010Martin Wallace
The 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital has entered the national folklore as a notorious case of medical misconduct. But there is still disagreement about what actually happened. It ... (2575 words)
Category: Features
- disease - ethics - cancer - hysteria - media responsibility -Martin Wallace
Placebos may contain no active ingredients, but they have real effects on the human brain. This article is based on a presentation to the NZ Skeptics 2008 conference in Hamilton, September 26-28. ... (2648 words)
Category: Features
- assumptions - biodynamics - medicine - placebo effect - drugs - placebos - pharmaceuticals -Martin Wallace
Martin Wallace particularly likes two of the five definitions of 'pitfall' in the OED: A trap or crafty device to catch by surprise the unsuspecting or unwary Any hidden or unperceived danger or ... (2099 words)
Category: Features
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