Presentation by Dr. Wallace Sampson (Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Stanford University)
We will discuss the evolution of so-called alternative medicine through the 1970s-2000s, its intentional transformation through creative language distortion, the background roles of organized pseudoscience, cults, sectarian schools, economic-political entities; and its influences in governmental agencies, the National Academies' Institute of Medicine, Medical schools and universities, medical journal editorial staffs, and in academia. Dr. Sampson will answer questions on scientific and social aspects of this phenomenon, which he feels is unprecedented - a massive coordinated ideological and anti-scientific movement.
General discussion to follow presentation.