Abstract Peter Chowka is an investigative journalist, science writer, Internet authority, and appointed member of two of the first OAM advisory panels.
Information is power.
I'm a writer and journalist. For more than 25 years I've been reporting about alternative medicine in a variety of media - since 1994 on the Internet. I was one of about 100 people chosen to serve on the OAM's first program advisory panels, including a panel about information collection and dissemination and alternative medicine databases. Those were the days before the Internet and we couldn't imagine then what the Net would have to offer. Net users have gone from 0 in 1993 to over 300 million in 2000.