Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing addresses the scientific principles behind, and applications of, evidence-based healing practices from a wide variety of sources, including conventional, alternative, and cross-cultural medicine. It is an interdisciplinary journal that explores the healing arts, consciousness, spirituality, eco-environmental issues, and basic science as all these fields relate to health. All articles are freely available online. EXPLORE: the Journal of Science and Healing is a pseudojournal edited by Larry Dossey published by Elsevier (whose interest in it seems more profit-based than following any rigorous academic standards). The journal promotes alternative medicine and parapsychology. Unfortunately, this is largely par for the course for Elsevier.

Its impact factor has ranged between 0.7 and 1.1.

Executive editor's description
Larry Dossey, EXPLORE's executive editor, stated:

In other words: EXPLORE admits it is willing to push alternative medicine, notably dominated by pseudoscience.

Exemplary articles
Looking for woo? Look no further.

Non-materialist neuroscience: Larry Dossey, The Millennium of Consciousness: Reflections on the One Mind:

Reincarnation as science: Larry Dossey, Birthmarks and Reincarnation:

Modernized faith healing: Larry Dossey, Telecebo: Beyond Placebo to an Expanded Concept of Healing:


 * Near-death experiences: Stephan A. Schwartz, Science, Death, and Consciousness


 * And, of course: Dean Radin's debunked study on "Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on Mood" (or, "how using samples of size 15-16 is a stupid idea"):

And of course, a nice juicy red flag of attempting to show the effectiveness of medical interventions with no control group, such as in an anxiety treatment program using meditation. Oh, 40% of your experimental population experienced improvement in anxiety symptoms? It would sure be nice to know that 50% didn't improve without intervention.

High-ranking editors
EXPLORE's editors include:


 * Executive Editor:
 * Larry Dossey: Doesn't like science-based medicine, loves "complimentary" medicine. Thinks science is dumb. Compares teaching the scientific method to child abuse. Whines about Big Pharma. Has published in the journal fully 66 times. Recognized as one of the Three Musketeers of Woo -- along with Deepak Chopra and Rustum Roy. The Encyclopedia of American Loons has an excellent write-up, albeit with broken URLs.


 * Coeditors-in-Chief:
 * Benjamin Kligler: Author of "Curriculum in Complementary Therapies: A Guide for the Medical Educator" and co-editor of "Integrative Medicine: Principles for Practice". Certified in hypnotherapy and acupuncture. Has published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Only scientific publication appears to be a lone article about lessons US medical educators could learn from how Cuba teaches CAM.
 * Dean Radin: A noted parapsychologist.


 * Associate Editors:
 * Ather Ali
 * Mary V. Fenton
 * Victor Sierpina
 * Ruth Quinlan Wolever


 * Editorial Director:
 * Bonnie Horrigan: No scientific experience.


 * Columnist:
 * Stephan A. Schwartz: A non-materialist neuroscience advocate who groups scientists that don't "consider consciousness as anything other than physicalist processes" in with "Creationist Anti-evolutionists" and "Climate Change Deniers". Has published in the journal fully 62 times.