Medline is Biased, and Taxpayers Pay for It
By Linda on Jan 22, 2010 in Interesting Stories
Linda’s comment: “Your taxes should not be used to fund censorship in a public library, especially the largest medical library on the planet. It is un-American.” This quote is so very true…how dare they censor information that can and does save lived. Follow the money. More and more folks are turning to the Internet today to find answers for their health woes. They don’t trust doctors with their treatment plans, Why? Because they are not getting well or have been misdiagnosed. I wonder how much money Medline receives from the pharmaceutical industry to censor alternative medicine articles? If they are going to use my tax dollars then they need to put alternative medicine on medline, medscape, etc., etc., etc.
Regards,
Linda or Angel
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Comment by Andrew W. Saul
Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service(OMNS, January 15, 2010) Did you know that there are “good” medical journals, and that there are “naughty” medical journals?
No kidding. The good journals are easy to access on the Internet through a huge electronic database called Medline ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed ) This wonderful, free service is brought to you by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. In other words, by you. By your tax dollars. Generally it is money well spent, until you go searching for megavitamin therapy research papers. Then you will find that you can’t find all of them. That is because of selective indexing.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) proudly describes itself as “the largest medical library in the world. The goal of the NLM is to collect, organize and make available biomedical literature to advance medical science and improve public health.”
Hmm. Collect. Organize. Make available. Improve public health.
So, after over 40 continuous years of publication, why is the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine NOT indexed by Medline?
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