Doctor Yourself Newsletter **EXTRA** (Vol. 4, No. 21-A,

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Doctor Yourself Newsletter **EXTRA** (Vol. 4, No. 21-A,

September 20, 2004)

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DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER **EXTRA** (Vol. 4, No. 21-A, September 20,

2004)

 

Written and copyright 2004 by Andrew W. Saul of

http://www.doctoryourself.com , which welcomes 1.5 million visitors

annually. Commercial use of the website or the contents of this

Newsletter is strictly prohibited.

 

NEW! THE DOCTOR YOURSELF **MEDLINE CONTEST**

 

The Doctor Yourself Newsletter is soliciting your entry for the most

ridiculous, unscientific, or just plain goofy article currently to be

found on the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE. It's so easy to

play: just go to

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi and start searching

 

for any foolish topic of any kind that you wish. The weirder the better.

 

For example: In the " Search PubMed for " box, type in " flatulence " and

you will get 1,233 indexed citations.

 

Honestly, this is like shooting fish in a barrel.

 

When you find a real doozy, cut and paste the entire citation into a

plain text email (no attachments will be accepted) and send it to me

(limit five submissions per reader) to drsaul . So

I find it in my non-MEDLINE indexed email Inbox, please use MEDLINE

COMEDY CONTEST as your message subject heading.

 

The Doctor Yourself Newsletter's " Winner Selection Technical Review

Committee " will then meet behind closed doors, and without telling you

anything about the actual scoring process, will decide which entry is

the winner.

 

(Did you get the joke? If not, please look at

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html

or do a quick search for " Medline JOM " using the search box near the

top of http://www.doctoryourself.com .)

 

Seriously, this really is a contest, and here is the grand prize: my

last copy of " Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C: The Clinical

Work of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. " by Lendon Smith, M.D. The reader

submitting what we judge to be " The World's Most Absurd Medline

Citation " will, if he or she resides in the US or Canada, receive this

authoritative 68 page megadose vitamin C booklet absolutely free by

first class mail. (If an overseas reader wins, it's coming by boat, so

don't wait up.)

 

While there will be only one actual prizewinner, favorite runner-up

entries will be published in the Newsletter. This contest ends when

the next Doctor Yourself Newsletter is sent out, or when the feds shut

me down, whichever comes first.

 

So join the fun! Search MEDLINE

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi) today! After all, your

taxes pay for it.

 

Officers, staff, review committee members and editors at the National

Library of Medicine are not eligible for entry. No particular legal

reason; it's just an arbitrary decision on our part.

 

 

What's that? You detect a certain sarcasm in my tone? I fail to see

why.

There is nothing at all funny about the world's largest medical

library arbitrarily refusing to index certain scholarly information

for professional and public access. For instance: the following papers

by twice-Nobel-prize winning Linus Pauling are not on Medline simply

because they happened to be published in the Journal of Orthomolecular

Medicine.

 

Rath M, Pauling L. Solution To the Puzzle of Human Cardiovascular

Disease: Its Primary Cause Is Ascorbate Deficiency ading to the

Deposition of Lipoprotein(a) and Fibrinogen/Fibrin in the Vascular

Wall. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol 6, 3 & 4th Quarters, 1991,

p 125.

 

Pauling L & Rath M. An Orthomolecular Theory of Human Health and

Disease. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol 6, 3 & 4th Quarters,

1991, p135.

 

Rath M, Pauling L. Apoprotein(a) Is An Adhesive Protein. Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol 6, 3 & 4th Quarters, 1991, p139.

 

Rath M, Pauling L. Case Report: Lysine/Ascorbate Related Amelioration

of Angina Pectoris. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol 6, 3 & 4th

Quarters, 1991, p 144.

 

Hoffer A, Pauling L. Hardin Jones Biostatistical Analysis of Mortality

Data for A Second Set of Cohorts of Cancer Patients with A Large

Fraction Surviving At the Termination of the Study and A Comparison of

Survival Times of Cancer Patients Receiving Large Regular Oral Doses

of Vitamin C and Other Nutrients with Similar Patients Not Receiving

these Doses. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol 6, 3 & 4th

Quarters, 1991, p 157.

 

(If you note carefully, you will see that all five of the above

Pauling articles appeared in one single volume of the Journal. We

would not want word of THAT to get out, now would we. And there's more: )

 

Rath M, Pauling L. A Unified theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease

Leading the Way To the Abolition of This Diseases As A Cause for Human

Mortality. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 7, First Quarter

1992, p 5.

 

Rath M, Pauling L. Plamin-induced Proteolysis and the Role of

Apoprotein(a), Lysine and Synthetic Lysine Analogs. Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 7, First Quarter 1992, p 17.

 

Pauling L. Third Case Report on Lysine-ascorbate Amelioration of

Angina Pectoris. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 8, Third

Quarter, 1993, p 137.

 

Why are these papers by Linus Pauling not indexed by the amply

taxpayer-funded National Library of Medicine? It is not because the

subjects are uninteresting. Nor is it because Pauling coauthored them

with Matthais Rath, M.D., since the following papers ARE indexed on

Medline. Same authors; same topics.

 

Rath M, Pauling L. Immunological evidence for the accumulation of

lipoprotein(a) in the atherosclerotic lesion of the hypoascorbemic

guinea pig. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Dec;87(23):9388-90. PMID:

2147514 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

Rath M, Pauling L. Hypothesis: lipoprotein(a) is a surrogate for

ascorbate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Aug;87(16):6204-7. Erratum

in: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991 Dec 5;88(24):11588. PMID: 2143582

[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

Pauling L, Herman ZS. Criteria for the validity of clinical trials of

treatments of cohorts of cancer patients based on the Hardin Jones

principle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1989 Sep;86(18):6835-7. PMID:

2780542 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

Pauling L. Biostatistical analysis of mortality data for cohorts of

cancer patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1989 May;86(10):3466-8.

PMID: 2726729 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

I think it is absurd that Medline, which has indexed 116 papers by

Linus Pauling, excludes equally valuable work of his due to where it

first appeared.

 

For my readers who think I've harped on this issue long enough, you

can For my readers who think I have just begun to fight,

you are correct.

The emperor has no clothes. The National Library of Medicine/MEDLINE

is biased.

 

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