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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(2):591-593; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn363
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Commentary: Challenging public health orthodoxies—prophesy or heresy?{dagger}

Andrew M Prentice1,2,*, Mathilde Savy1,2, Momodou K Darboe1,2 and Sophie E Moore1,2

1 MRC International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London.
2 MRC Keneba, The Gambia.

* Corresponding author. MRC International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London. E-mail: andrew.prentice@lshtm.ac.uk

Accepted 9 December 2008

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In 1633, after many years of skirmishing with the Catholic Church over his support for Copernicus’ heliocentric theory of the universe, Galileo was finally sentenced by the inquisition to prison and religious penances. In a formal ceremony at the church of Santa Maria Sofia Minerva, he was forced to abjure his errors, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest in Sienna. The prophet had been convicted as a heretic.

Without, yet, wishing to confer the status of prophet on Peter Aaby and his disciples based in Guinea Bissau, there are significant parallels in their persistent challenges to some of the deepest rooted public health orthodoxies of the present day. Aaby has a long history of interrogating datasets in a way that others have failed to do and coming up with some uncomfortable findings. For many years he has been in conflict . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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