Call for Papers: Journal of the FLCCC Alliance

Public Forum
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Dear friends,

I am pleased to invite you to contribute to the Journal of the FLCCC Alliance, a new platform for advancing unbiased, high-quality medical research with a focus on alternative therapies, repurposed drugs, medical ethics, and healthcare policy.

In the spirit of Honest Medicine, our mission is to publish research that breaks through the biases often clouding modern medical publications, and we believe your expertise could be pivotal in shaping this movement.

Whether you have new insights into underexplored treatments or critical thoughts on today’s healthcare practices, we encourage you to submit your work for consideration.

Submissions are now open, and we welcome original studies, reviews, and editorials from all specialties. To learn more about the submission process, please visit our website (https://imahealth.org/call-for-submissions/).

Feel free to share this invitation with colleagues who may also have valuable contributions. Together, we can expand the boundaries of honest and ethical medicine.

Looking forward to your submissions

Warm regards,
Joseph Varon, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM, FRSM
President & Chief Medical Officer, FLCCC Alliance
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the FLCCC Alliance

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UPDATE (11-4-24): The FLCCC Medical, Scientific and Editorial teams have been working very hard and are excited that we have received so many quality papers for our first digital edition. We also have papers in review for our second edition.

Anyone with new studies, abstracts, case reviews and editorials can submit any time to submissions@theflccc.org.

Stay tuned for more announcements as we get closer to publishing our inaugural edition.

Kelly Bumann

Executive Director, FLCCC Alliance

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UPDATE (11-4-24): The FLCCC Medical, Scientific and Editorial teams have been working very hard and are excited that we have received so many quality papers for our first digital edition. We also have papers in review for our second edition.

Anyone with new studies, abstracts, case reviews and editorials can submit any time to submissions@theflccc.org.

Stay tuned for more announcements as we get closer to publishing our inaugural edition.

Kelly Bumann

Executive Director, FLCCC Alliance

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Thanks, Kelly. Great to hear it’s on its way. Can’t wait to have everyone discuss it here in the forum.

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Hello - as a librarian, I am really interested in this new journal and have a couple of quick questions. Will it be in print, online or both? What is the frequency? Will it be indexed anywhere like MEDLINE, PubMed, or CINAHL? I would love to get an institutional subscription for my small academic health science college once it gets rolling. As a watcher of the scholarly communications space, I’m excited that people will have a place to publish without all the bias and censorship in recent years. Thank you and good luck!

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Hey wilderabbit - looking for answers for your great questions. Thanks for asking.

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Hi wilderabbit

Here’s the response from my colleagues -

"Thank you so much for your interest in our new journal! We’re thrilled to hear from someone as passionate about scholarly communications as you are.

*We will start our via digital and intend to publish quarterly. **As for the Institutional subscriptions, we do envision that being part of our subscription options. *

*We are finalizing all pricing now, and we intend to make the first Edition free for at least the period before our Second Edition, to demonstrate value and worth and then our Second Edition will have charges. *With that said, all journal article abstracts will always be free.

We are taking steps to have the journal indexed (with the source lists and also on Google Scholar), but that takes time for a new journal to get established as well as support and citations for key articles. Just fyi, our Editor-in-Chief, Joseph Varon currently manages two other medical journals, so brings great experience to our team.

We’re also building our site to be fully compatible with indexing services like MEDLINE, PubMed, and CINAHL. While these processes can take time, especially for new publications, we’re taking all necessary steps to ensure our journal meets their standards. Indexing may not be available immediately upon launch, but we will keep the community updated on our progress."

How’s that for a comprehensive answer? Hope that helps, and again thanks very much for your questions and comments.

Anyone reading, do you have thoughts, comments, questions? If you do please drop them here, and if they’re questions, we’ll go try find an answer for you!

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Great question, Vengadan - thank you. There definitely is a peer review process. I’ll find out how it works and report back. Cool question. Thank you

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Hi Vengadan The Fight to Launch A New Medical Journal at 5 mins 27 there’s a brief intro on the Peer Review Process. Anyway looking for more info for you and, of course, everyone reading. It’s a very important question.

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This is all great news- thanks for responding so quickly!! That’s kind of what I thought, it takes a while to become “established” and gain indexing approval. Everything takes time. I will be curious to see the first issue and I’d love to try to get a subscription depending on price when we do our annual subscription renewal next Fall. Glad it will be in Google Scholar. I know students use it even though they are encouraged by their instructors not to but I do, too, sometimes. :wink:

Thanks again! I hope the journal is a huge success!!

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After watching the “Fight to Launch a New Medical Journal” video I noticed that Dr. Varon mentioned that the submissions might include “a small section for laypeople.” I downloaded the Instructions for Authors and have a question. Can you explain in more detail what would a layperson like myself with only self taught knowledge of microbiology and nutrition, since the start of SC2, be able to submit for publication? For instance I have a strong interest in the use of IVM as a prophylactic and for treatment of conditions that are viral and cancerous. Perhaps exploring the value to the use of IVM by anyone like myself who might be interested in IVM and opening up the discussion to the medical profession from patient inquiries. I have personally experienced recent contacts with medical professionals regarding the alternative use of berberine, nattokinase, and IVM with the common response being that there have not been studies proving the safety and effectiveness of these supplements. As we all know that reasoning is based on the low-cost off-patent disincentive to investigate these alternatives to high price big pharma medications. Any guidance you can provide would be appreciated.

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Great question. Thank you. I’ll ask the question and come back to you.

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Yes thank you. I have already done the review of the author stuff so now I just need to prepare an informative article. First time effort so will see how it goes. I’m sure other potential authors will benefit from this guidance.

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Well, based on the info and responses you put up on these forums, whatever you send in is bound to be great. We look forward to reading it.

And just by the way, your engagement in these forums is most appreciated. It’s a win-win situation for everyone.

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Dear Dr Varon, I am a professional member of the FLCCC community. I want to submit a paper to your new journal on Chinese Herbal Hepatotoxicity. It’s a scientific review that I think effectively debunks this fake news narrative. However, I want it to be peer reviewed, hopefully by a prominent gastroenterologist who specializes in Liver Disease, thinks outside the system like this community does, and who would be willing to be a co-author, so this paper cannot be judged (or less so!) as a “polemic” solely from an alternative health practitioner. Can you help steer me to such a person? Many thanks. Dr Denise Visconte

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Hi Denisev, brilliant that you have a paper. Great question. We were asked a similar question in the Public forum, and this is how I answered.

I have a response – https://imahealth.org/call-for-submissions/

“Any ‘submitter’ needs to follow the Author instructions, here https://imahealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/JFLCCC-Instructions-for-Authors-FINAL.pdf .

Once submitted, it is screened to meet guidelines and then sent to Dr. Varon as Editor. At that review Dr. Varon will assess quality and relevance of the paper and either reject, ask for revisions or send to peer-review.

After peer review, Dr. Varon will assess continuation of process and then either accept based on peer-review or reject. If accepted, at this stage would provide comments back to the Author for potential revisions, then sent to final edit and review prior to full acceptance and publication.”

Hope this helps.

And anyone else looking to submit please read all the info on this page https://imahealth.org/call-for-submissions/ and of course we look forward to your submission.

Does that help at all?

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Hi Greg

Yes, it’s not only peer review I am interested in but first co-authorship with a western liver disease specialist. I am assuming the co-authorship needs to happen before the peer review, so in the first instance I was looking at recommendations from this community about who you might know would be willing to co-author from a western liver disease viewpoint… Thanks. Dr Denise Visconte

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Ah, thanks for that clarification, Dr. Visconte. Much obliged.

Anyone who knows anyone who is a ‘western liver disease specialist’ who’d like to co-author, please do get in touch.

That would be phenomenal.

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Hi Greg

Specifically, I am asking Dr Varon and/or other board members if they know and can recommend a gastroenterologist who specializes in liver disease, who thinks outside the system/box, and would be willing to review this paper, make recommendations for any adjustments from that point of view and would be willing to co-author the paper, before it goes further for peer review. I believe that is what I asked for in the first email of this thread, as it was addressed to Dr Varon. Input like this would give the paper more ‘weight’ and balance for any bias from my perspective. Thanks Dr Denise Visconte

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Hi Greg

Should I just submit the paper anyway for peer review with FLCCC, and if it is approved there, then maybe FLCCC could help me find a prominent gastroenterologist who could additionally review it and maybe co-author - and then publish? Unsure of how to proceed with this? Thanks for all your help? Dr Denise Visconte