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Alan Cassels

Victoria
As seen in: Nature, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, The Toronto Star, The Epoch Times, STAT, The Nation, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, umanitoba.ca and
Covers:  Disease mongering; pharmaceutical policy; evidence-based therapeutics;
Doesn't Cover: sports. Not ever.
Dedicated to preventing overdiagnosis through research, writing and advocacy. Time to stop turning ordinary people into patients.

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Alan Cassels’s Biography

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Co-author of the 2005 best seller Selling Sickness on the corporate-backed making of disease. Studied and wrote about the history of evidence-based medicine in The Cochrane Collaboration: Medicine's Best-Kept Secret. Most fascinated with disease mongering and the role of outside actors, particularly those connected to clinical research, pharmaceutical development and health policy who are all implicated in the medicalization of everyday life.

Alan Cassels’s Journalist Portfolio

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Cycling and the middle-aged man: More urodynamics than aerodynamics?

Cycling and the middle-aged man: More urodynamics than aerodynamics?

Last summer, for the third year in a row, more than 4000 people (mostly middle-aged men) pedalled their road …

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Rich? Inquisitive? Confused? Book a safari to the "wild side" of private boutique medicine

Rich? Inquisitive? Confused? Book a safari to the "wild side" of private boutique medicine

Most people wouldn't think of Alberta as an exotic safari destination. But for customers who have the money, …

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Infectious anxiety disorder

Infectious anxiety disorder

At the risk of people worrying even more than they already do about their health, we propose adding a new dia…

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Drugs in the news: an analysis of Canadian newspaper coverage of new prescription drugs

Drugs in the news: an analysis of Canadian newspaper coverage of new prescription drugs

Background: Patients routinely cite the media, after physicians and pharmacists, as a key source of informati…

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Disordering normal 5.0 - Common Ground

Disordering normal 5.0 - Common Ground

Here comes the new DSM DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels * The people's briefing note on prescription drugs Towards t…

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Demand answers about the drugs you're prescribed

Demand answers about the drugs you're prescribed

What's happening in the world of antipsychotics might keep you awake at night. WHY DOES IT SEEM LIKE everyone…

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Articles

Less Is More in Medicine

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By Alan Cassels, Sheramy Tsai
| The Epoch Times
6/3/2026|Updated: 6/3/2026 Commentary In modern medicine, the zeitgeist today seems to be captured in one word: “more.” We need more MRI machines, more screenings, more surgical interventions, more drugs, more doctors. More. More. More. Like the internal logic of capitalism that is built on eternal growth, so too is our health care system.
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Less Is More In Medicine – OpEd

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By Alan Cassels
| Eurasia Review
In modern medicine, the zeitgeist today seems to be captured in one word: “more.” We need more MRI machines, more screenings, more surgical interventions, more drugs, more doctors. More. More. More. Like the internal logic of capitalism that is built on eternal growth, so too is our health care system. Given this ever-expanding demand, we need to be asking some hard questions about whether sending even more of our collective wealth towards our healthcare system is producing good returns.
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Less Is More in Medicine

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By Alan Cassels
| Brownstone Institute
In modern medicine, the zeitgeist today seems to be captured in one word: “more.” We need more MRI machines, more screenings, more surgical interventions, more drugs, more doctors. More. More. More. Like the internal logic of capitalism that is built on eternal growth, so too is our health care system. Given this ever-expanding demand, we need to be asking some hard questions about whether sending even more of our collective wealth towards our healthcare system is producing good returns.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Endlessly fascinating, always learning.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Best by email. Most interested in stories that I have a deep experience in, especially pharmaceuticals, drug policy and disease mongering.

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