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Wallace Sampson (March 29, 1930 – May 25, 2015) was an American medical doctor and consumer advocate against alternative medicine and other fraud schemes.〔Antiscience Trends in the Rise of the 'Alternative Medicine' Movement, Wallace Sampson, 17 DEC 2006, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, ()〕〔SFGate: Healthy Doubts, ''Wallace Sampson - Alternative medicine doesn't exist and acupuncture is useless, he says'', Reyhan Harmanci, SF Chronicle, August 31, 2006, ()〕〔Closer to the Truth, ''Wallace Sampson, Physician, Consumer Health Advocate'', Public Broadcasting System, ()〕〔(''Wallace Sampson'', Science Based Medicine )〕〔Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation, Special Report, Barry L. Beyerstein and Wallace Sampson, Center for Inquiry, Volume 20.4, July / August 1996〕 He was an authority in numerous medical fields, including oncology, hematology, and pathology. He was Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine at Stanford University. He was the former Head of Medical Oncology at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.〔〔 Faculty at the Skeptic's Toolbox 1998 - 2008. ==Scientific skepticism== He was an international expert in exposing pseudoscience-based fraudulent schemes in medicine and other fields, such as alternative medicine, integrative medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, and Chiropractic. He publicized the expression "antiscience" to refer to the basis of belief in alternative medicine in his title for a peer reviewed paper published by the New York Academy of Sciences - ''"Antiscience Trends in the Rise of the 'Alternative Medicine' Movement"''.〔 He taught the Stanford University School of Medicine ''Alternative Medicine'' course regarding ''"unscientific medical systems and aberrant medical claims"''.〔〔 The San Francisco Chronicle quotes him as saying ''"We've looked into most of the practices and, biochemically or physically, their supposed effects lie somewhere between highly improbable and impossible."'' e He was a founding editor of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. He was the former Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Council against Health Fraud, former Chair of the State of California Cancer Advisory Council (advisory board on health fraud schemes), and consulted on medical fraud and other fraud schemes for the Medical Board of California, Association of State Medical Boards, California State Attorney General, US Postal Service, multiple district attorneys, and multiple insurance companies. He was also a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.csicop.org/about/csi_fellows_and_staff/ )〕 Sampson has published numerous academic papers in various medical fields, as well as popular works including for the Saturday Evening Post.〔〔 In a eulogy for Sampson, friend Harriet Hall writes that she owes her own career in skepticism to Sampson. He is the person that encouraged her to write about pseudoscience topics, and learn how to evaluate claims. She had met him at the Skeptic's Toolbox where he was a part of the faculty. When he decided to step down from that leucture position she was the person who was asked to replace him. Hall reports that Sampson first became interested in writing about skepticism topics when his patients kept asking about using Laetrile to treat cancer. He researched the topic and found that it was a bogus claim. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wallace Sampson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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