Should Quack Busters and Other Rationalists Contribute to the Society for Science Based Medicine?
After the death of Wallace Sampson, MD, Stanford Professor of Medicine (Wally, as his friends knew him), the founding editors of the Society for Science Based Medicine (SfSBM) website, including Dr. Steven Novella, Dr. Harriet Hall and Dr. David Gorski, heaped praise on him. Here is some of what they wrote: “ Wally was a valued member of the SBM community, a mentor to many of us, and a tireless crusader against health fraud and pseudoscience in medicine. He carried the banner of defending science and reason within medicine for a generation, and his is one of the giant shoulders on which SBM currently rests ” “ Wally was keen to identify and nurture new people interested in promoting science in medicine. As a much younger skeptic, prior to social media, when I was only running a new and obscure local skeptic group, Wally invited me to speak at conferences, and eventually to be one of the assistant editors for The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine . Such nurturin