Truth Unveiled

Dr. Faadiel Essop is currently a professor in the Division of Medical Physiology at Stellenbosch University, as well as Director and Co-Founder of the Centre for Cardio-metabolic Research Centre. Dr. Essop is the current President of the African Association of Physiological Sciences, a board member of the General Assembly of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, and chairperson of the South African National Committee of the IUPS. He’s also served as a member of the International Committee of the American Physiological Society and is an elected Fellow of the American Physiological Society. During 2021 he was awarded the PSSA’s prestigious Lifetime Career Achievement Award. Dr. Essop is currently the recipient of a Teaching Advancement at University fellowship where the focus is to develop a philosophical framework for the introduction of broader humanities and arts concepts into the biomedical, science and engineering curricula in order to ensure more holistic graduates.

• 1. Scientific elitism a threat to physiologists?2. The neoliberal context and its impact on physiology and higher education3. Challenges facing the physiologists and the scientific enterprise in the postmodernism and post-truth world4. Critical reflections on the nature of the scientific process for physiologists5. Slow science an antidote for fast science?6. Strategies to deal with the rising threat by fake experts and conspiracies7. Curriculum renewal: A case study8. Decision making in the clinical context: toward a more inclusive concept of research approaches, practices, and outcomes9. Scientific communication