Medical Predictions
New England Journal of Medicine · 1945
IN two previous editorials1 , 2 the Journal expressed disapproval of the policy of the Reader's Digest in publishing articles3 , 4 that tend to misinform and mislead the public. Those opinions still stand for implications made in an article, entitled "Atabrine Fully Vindicated: Malaria, scourge of mankind, can be licked," appearing in the December, 1944, issue of the same periodical.Incidentally, the current article indicates that the author has now learned that mosquito control is a major part of malaria control. Furthermore, it contains scientific evidence for his previous predictions. The major part of this evidence, however, has accumulated since 1942 through the . . .