R. Barker Bausell

Rufus Barker Bausell, Jr. (born 1942)^[1] is an American biostatistician and retired professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore,^[2] where, from approximately 1999 to 2004, he was the director of their center for studying complementary and alternative medicine.^[3] He was also the co-founder of the academic journal Evaluation & the Health Professions,^[4] and served as its editor-in-chief for more than three decades.^[5][6] An expert on research methods, he is known for criticizing alternative medicine,^[7] saying that alternative medical treatments are little to no more effective than placebos.^[8] He is the author of the book Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine,^{[ISBN missing]} published in 2007 by Oxford University Press.^[9][10] He has also written a book about teaching in the United States and how he feels it could be improved, entitled Too Simple to Fail.^{[ISBN missing][11]}