====== Alastair McAlpine ======

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Dr. **Alastair McAlpine** is a Canadian infectious diseases specialist based in [[canada:british_columbia:Vancouver]], [[canada:British Columbia]].

He was a fellow in paediatric infectious diseases at [[BC Children’s Hospital]].((//A long way from home.// (2018, October 9). CMAJ Blogs. https://web.archive.org/web/20220127225549/http://cmajblogs.com/a-long-way-from-home/))

===== History =====

==== COVID-19 ====

=== John Snow Memorandum ===

McAlpine was a signatory to the [[John Snow Memorandum]] calling for sustained [[public health]] restrictions,((//Signatories of The John Snow Memo.// John Snow Memorandum. Retrieved April 1, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220401051743/https://www.johnsnowmemo.com/1200.html)) originally published in the [[Lancet]] in October 2020.((Alwan, N. A., Burgess, R. A., Ashworth, S., Beale, R., Bhadelia, N., Bogaert, D., Dowd, J., Eckerle, I., Goldman, L. R., Greenhalgh, T., Gurdasani, D., Hamdy, A., Hanage, W. P., Hodcroft, E. B., Hyde, Z., Kellam, P., Kelly-Irving, M., Krammer, F., Lipsitch, M., & McNally, A. (2020). //Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now.// The Lancet, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32153-X)) The original signatories of the memo include individuals with direct financial ties to development of [[COVID-19 vaccines]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]], [[monoclonal antibodies]], [[Public Health England]], [[Scottish Government COVID-19 Advisory Group]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Roche]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:GlaxoSmithKline]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Novartis]], [[medical_technology_companies:Illumina]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Merck]], [[pharmaceutical_companies:Genentech]], and the [[Center for Policy Impact in Global Health]] at [[Duke University]], "which has received grant funding from the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]] for policy research that includes policy analysis on COVID-19 control."

McAlpine has been quoted in several media reports on the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].

In December 2021, McAlpine co-authored an article in [[Canada's National Observer]] arguing for the closure of industrial mink farming due to the alleged risk of emerging [[SARS-COV-2]] variant. He alludes to [[veterinary COVID-19 vaccines]].((Hajek, J., McAlpine, A., & Leung, V. (2021, December 16). //Large mink fur farms threaten our COVID-19 health efforts.// Canada’s National Observer. https://web.archive.org/web/20221115045342/https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/12/16/opinion/mink-fur-farms-threaten-covid-19-health-efforts))

[[Newsweek]] cited a February 1, 2022 tweet by McAlpine in which he asserted that //in-vitro// data for the benefit of [[ivermectin]] had not meaningfully translated into humans.((Browne, E. (2022, February 1). //News Story on Ivermectin Having Anti-Viral Effect Against Omicron Corrected.// Newsweek. https://web.archive.org/web/20220201113531/https://www.newsweek.com/reuters-corrects-ivermectin-anti-viral-effect-omicron-covid-coronavirus-1674854))

In April 2022, he described Dr. [[Robert Malone]]'s work on [[mRNA vaccines]] as "important" but explained that others contributed to the platform over a number of years.((Alba, D. (2022, April 3). //The Latest Covid Misinformation Star Says He Invented the Vaccines.// The New York Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20220406143117/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/technology/robert-malone-covid.html)) [[MedPage Today]] repeated the quotation three days later.((Fiore, K. (2022, April 6). //COVID Origins and EcoHealth Alliance; Malone Didn’t Invent mRNA Vaccines.// MedPage Today. https://web.archive.org/web/20220406164838/https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/98075))

===== External links =====

  * [[https://wiki.whiteroseintelligence.com/en/Alastair-McAlpine|White Rose Wiki]]