Journal Title：Medical Hypotheses

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.

Medical Hypotheses 是一个讨论医学和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，以促进科学过程蓬勃发展的多样性和辩论。医学假设的目的和范围现在与该期刊的创始人已故的大卫·霍罗宾博士提出的没有什么不同。在他对期刊第一期的介绍中，他问“医学假设将发表什么样的论文？并继续回答“医学假设将发表论文，描述具有大量观察支持的理论、想法和一些实验支持尚不完整的假设”。 （Horrobin DF，1975 年生物医学科学思想：医学假设基础的原因。医学假设第 1 卷，第 1 期，1975 年 1 月至 2 月，第 1-2 页。）。医学假说因此被推出，并且至今仍然存在，为医学提供新颖、激进的新思想和新推测，以开放的思想考虑，为大多数传统期刊拒绝的激进假设开辟了领域。医学假设中的论文在风格、结构和参考方面采用标准的科学形式。因此，该杂志在前沿理论与医学和科学传播的主流之间架起了一座桥梁，如果要对这些想法进行批评和检验，就必须最终进入这些领域。