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Editorial staff and contributors at Science-Based Medicine are physicians and other professionals who are alarmed at the manner in which unscientific and pseudoscientific health care ideas have increasingly infiltrated academic medicine and medicine at large. Our goal is to examine these claims in the light of science and skepticism. We believe that the best medicine is based on scientific principles — considering plausibility, for instance, and not just evidence. See About Science-Based Medicine.

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Wally Sampson (March 29, 1930 – May 25, 2015) was a weekly contributor and founding member of Science-Based Medicine. Unfortunately, he passed away in May, 2015. Because of his contributions this blog and, prior this blog’s existence, to fighting quackery, not to mention his inspiration in forming SBM, we consider him an emeritus editor.

Harriet Hall (July 2, 1945 – January 11, 2023) was a weekly contributor, founding member of Science-Based Medicine, and tireless skeptical activist elsewhere on the internet. In addition to being a regular contributor to SBM, she was a regular columnist at Skeptic, a published author, and of course a retired military flight surgeon.

Paul Ingraham was SBM’s assistant editor from 2010 to 2016, taking on a wide range of responsibilities, but especially technical issues and working with guest contributors. He remains involved informally and hopes to return someday, but is now focussed on PainScience.com, a self-help website for musculoskeletal problems (strongly influenced by SBM).
See contributors page.

Kimball C. Atwood IV, MD was an editor of this blog from its founding through the first few years of its existence. He was best known for his massive multipart deconstructions of acupuncture and the promotion of traditional Chinese medicine by Chairman Mao, as well as his encyclopedic knowledge of naturopathy. He is currently enjoying retirement.

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