Medical Hypotheses

期刊简介：Medical Hypotheses is a forum for ideas in medicine and related biomedical sciences. It will publish interesting and important theoretical papers that foster the diversity and debate upon which the scientific process thrives. The Aims and Scope of Medical Hypotheses are no different now from what was proposed by the founder of the journal, the late Dr David Horrobin. In his introduction to the first issue of the Journal, he asks 'what sorts of papers will be published in Medical Hypotheses? and goes on to answer 'Medical Hypotheses will publish papers which describe theories, ideas which have a great deal of observational support and some hypotheses where experimental support is yet fragmentary'. (Horrobin DF, 1975 Ideas in Biomedical Science: Reasons for the foundation of Medical Hypotheses. Medical Hypotheses Volume 1, Issue 1, January-February 1975, Pages 1-2.). Medical Hypotheses was therefore launched, and still exists today, to give novel, radical new ideas and speculations in medicine open-minded consideration, opening the field to radical hypotheses which would be rejected by most conventional journals. Papers in Medical Hypotheses take a standard scientific form in terms of style, structure and referencing. The journal therefore constitutes a bridge between cutting-edge theory and the mainstream of medical and scientific communication, which ideas must eventually enter if they are to be critiqued and tested against observations.

【译文】医学假说是医学及相关生物医学科学思想的论坛。它将发表有趣且重要的理论论文，这些论文促进了科学过程所依赖的多样性和辩论。医学假说的目标和范围现在与创始人已故的David Horrobin博士所提出的没有不同。在杂志的第一期导言中，他问道‘医学假说将发表哪些论文？’并继续回答‘医学假说将发表描述理论、有大量观察支持的观念以及一些实验支持尚不完整的假设的论文’。（Horrobin DF，1975年生物医学科学中的思想：医学假说成立的理由。医学假说第1卷，第1期，1975年1-2月，第1-2页）。因此，医学假说因此启动，并且至今仍然存在，以对医学中的新颖、激进的新思想和推测给予开放性的考虑，为那些大多数传统期刊会拒绝的激进假设开辟了领域。医学假说的论文在风格、结构和参考文献方面采用标准的科学形式。因此，该杂志构成了尖端理论与医学和科学交流主流之间的桥梁，这些思想必须最终进入，以便它们能够被批判和与观察结果进行测试。