In Brief: Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine: Is "the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated entirely to the scientific, rational evaluations of unconventional health claims," according to Editor Wallace Sampson, MD, Stanford University. Because "the need for objective, scientific critiques of the claims of `alternative' medicine has never been greater...[the journal] will call for double-blind controlled trials of alternative therapies," Sampson continues. The journal, whose first issue is dated Fall/Winter 1997, will be published biannually by Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y...
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