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# Alastair McAlpine
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/alastair-mcalpine/
- Published: 1999-01-02T09:16:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-31T21:01:38.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #individual

He was a fellow in paediatric infectious diseases at British Columbia Children's Hospital.[\[1\]](#fn1)

## History

McAlpine was a signatory to the John Snow Memorandum calling for sustained public health restrictions,[\[2\]](#fn2) originally published in *The Lancet* in October 2020.[\[3\]](#fn3)

In December 2021, McAlpine co-authored an article in *Canada's National Observer* arguing for the closure of industrial mink farms due to the alleged risk of emerging SARS-COV-2 variants. He alludes to veterinary [COVID-19 vaccines](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-vaccine).[\[4\]](#fn4)

*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.[\[5\]](#fn5)

In April 2022, he described Dr. [Robert Malone](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Robert-Malone)'s work on mRNA vaccines as “important” but explained that others contributed to the platform over a number of years.[\[6\]](#fn6) *MedPage Today* repeated the quotation three days later.[\[7\]](#fn7)

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=alastair%5Fmcalpine)

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1. *A long way from home.* (2018, October 9). CMAJ Blogs. <https://web.archive.org/web/20220127225549/http://cmajblogs.com/a-long-way-from-home/> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. *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> [↩︎](#fnref2)
3. 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%2820%2932153-X> [↩︎](#fnref3)
4. 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> [↩︎](#fnref4)
5. 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> [↩︎](#fnref5)
6. 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> [↩︎](#fnref6)
7. 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> [↩︎](#fnref7)