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Nmillerche/sandbox/Rachael Dunlop
Alma materUniversity of Sydney Faculty of Medicine
Known forScientific skepticism
Scientific career
FieldsHeart disease
InstitutionsUniversity of Technology, Sydney
ThesisInvestigation into the mechanisms of intracellular degradation of proteins containing oxidised amino acids (2005)

Rachael Dunlop is an Australian heart disease researcher and skeptic, the vice president of the New South Wales committee of the Australian Skeptics.[1] A fellow of the society of biology, she is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, with her research focusing on the role of blue green algae in triggering motor neuron disease and ALS.[2] Some of this research has been published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine.[3] She frequently blogs about the anti-vaccine movement in Australia on her blog, The Skeptics' Book of Pooh-Pooh,[4][5] as well as at the blog Science-Based Medicine, where she has written about, among other topics, the Australian Vaccination Network.[6] She has also won a Shorty Award for health.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "About Us". The Skeptic Zone. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Canberra Skeptics Lecture". Australian Skeptics. 15 June 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  3. ^ Rodgers, K. J.; Hume, P. M.; Dunlop, R. A.; Dean, R. T. (2004). "Biosynthesis and turnover of DOPA-containing proteins by human cells". Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 37 (11): 1756–1764. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2004.08.009. PMID 15528035.
  4. ^ http://scepticsbook.com/
  5. ^ "Rachael Dunlop, PhD". Institute for Science in Medicine. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  6. ^ Dunlop, Rachael (23 December 2012). "Another blow to the anti-vaccine movement as legislation change forces a name change". Science-Based Medicine. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  7. ^ "Dr. Rachel Dunlop". Shorty Awards website. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
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