   This is incorrect though,The opposite is true. He argues specifically FOR the creation of research protocols for traditional Asian medicine.  He only recommends that they be designed to analyze all aspects of the clinical approach of traditional Asian medicine.   You must understand that research is not a one-dimensional affair or only of one type (e.g. RCT's cohort studies, etc.), so to argue for the development of new protocols to apply to a new subject is not radical. Dr. Tokar is not the only person who has written about this. There are biomedical doctors (MD's) who have done so as well.  How is this: Tokar believes in cooperation between traditional Asian medicine and biomedicine, but has argued against integration and the creation of research protocols that do not fully analyze the specific approaches utilized in traditional Asian medicine, such as those that apply only biomedical parameters.  