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.

《医学假说》是医学和相关生物医学科学思想的论坛。它将发表有趣而重要的理论论文，以促进科学过程蓬勃发展的多样性和辩论。《医学假说》的目标和范围与该杂志的创始人已故的 David Horrobin 博士提出的目标和范围没有什么不同。在该杂志第一期的介绍中，他问道：“《医学假说》将发表什么样的论文？”并继续回答“《医学假说》将发表描述理论、有大量观察支持的思想和一些实验支持尚不完整的假设的论文”。（Horrobin DF，1975 年《生物医学科学思想：医学假说创立的原因》。《医学假说》第 1 卷，第 1 期，1975 年 1 月至 2 月，第 1-2 页。）因此，《医学假说》杂志应运而生，至今仍然存在，旨在以开放的心态考虑医学领域新颖、激进的新思想和推测，为大多数传统期刊拒绝的激进假说打开大门。《医学假说》杂志上的论文在风格、结构和参考文献方面采用标准的科学形式。因此，该杂志构成了前沿理论与医学和科学交流主流之间的桥梁，如果要对思想进行批评和根据观察进行检验，这些思想最终必须进入这一领域。

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