Alternative Medicine Professor Edzard Ernst | How Prince Charles Got Me Fired
Alternative Medicine Professor Edzard Ernst | Why I Retired (Early)
"I am retiring because the £2 million donated by the Laing Foundation is running out.
My University had signed a contract to match this sum, but fund raising was never successful.
After Prince Charles complained to the Vice Chancellor about me five years ago, it stopped altogether.
Instead of fulfilling their promise, the University told us that they will close us down in May 2011.
It was only because I could persuade the new dean who started in September 2010 to reconsider that complete and final closure was averted.
The 'deal' we struck was that I officially retire, then get re-hired half-time for a year to help find a successor and provide the continuity.
Personally, I am over the moon with this solution.
I have fought so many battles that the scars are beginning to show and I feel exhausted with all of this."
- Emeritus Professor Edzard Ernst
MD PhD FMedSci FSB FRCP
Scientist and Physician