The quacks, the shonks, the fraudsters, the medically deluded and maybe even the TGA itself can sigh with relief.  

One of their fiercest critics, Associate Professor Ken Harvey, is surrendering his medical registration as a public health physician and stepping away from his roles as president of the Friends of Science in Medicine.

His blog, Medreach, will go offline on 20 December. 

There is a long list of people and entities that have suffered Professor Harvey’s evidence-based wrath and not just those at the margins.