More Big Pharma keeping info away from the public

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Hi all,

 

When I was in practice in the late 70's thru 90's, I was a member of

this group, and contributed a bit. It is published without any drug

advertising of any kind, and as a result, is supported by membership.

The articles in this publication were always interesting and showed how

to solve many mental and physical problems without drugs. Big Pharma

has worked hard over many years to keep this free information that

competes with their drugs " off the market " . Here's how that has worked

up to now, but with the web, secrets are harder to keep.

 

The following is reprinted by permission from the Orthomolecular Medical

Society. It shows clearly that " conventional MD's " , and those with

closed or " bribed minds " are doing the " dirty work? of Big Pharma

again. How does this work to keep non drug therapies from the public?

Read on.

 

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** How to Fool All of the People All of the Time:

US Taxpayers Fund Library Censorship

 

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are included.

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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

*Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 21, 2010*

 

 

 

How to Fool All of the People All of the Time:

US Taxpayers Fund Library Censorship

 

*(OMNS, Jan 21, 2010) At a recent emergency meeting of the World

Headquarters Of Pharmaceutical Politicians, Educators, and Reporters

(WHOPPER):*

 

* " Ladies and gentlemen, we have a slight problem.* The public is

beginning to complain about how the US National Library of Medicine

censors nutritional research. This is embarrassing, as the last thing we

want is for taxpayers to question how their tax money is spent. It is

none of their damn business. But it is definitely a matter of business,

big business, for WHOPPER.

 

" Up until now, when people write to complain about journal censorship (

custserv <custserv ) , we've managed to

get away with NLM sending out this form letter reply: /'The National

Library of Medicine (NLM) uses a 15-person advisory committee of health

professionals and librarians to recommend titles to be indexed. This

committee uses guidelines, available to the public on our website, such

as scientific merit, importance of the content to the scientific

community, and editorial processes to assist it in making

recommendations. Additional information about journal selection is

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

<http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=48 & e=MTM4ODU= & l=-http--ww\

w.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html>

'/

 

" The beauty of this is that we do not have to follow the published

guidelines. We control the National Library of Medicine so skillfully

that we got Medline to index publications that are not medical journals

at all. We are enormously proud to say that Medline indexes /Time/

magazine, /Newsweek/, /US News and World Report/, and /Consumer

Reports/. But not the peer-reviewed /Journal of Orthomolecular

Medicine/, continuously published for more than 40 years, nor the

peer-reviewed journal /Fluoride/, also published for decades.

 

" Yes, there are about 2,000 indexed articles on Medline/PubMed just from

/Time/ magazine. Here: see for yourself what a great job we've done. Go

to Medline ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

<http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=48 & e=MTM4ODU= & l=-http--ww\

w.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed>

) and do your own two-second search for " time magazine " . Then try

/Newsweek/: over 1,900 Medline responses. /US News and World Report/:

over 2,000 articles indexed by Medline. Medline also indexes several

hundred articles from /Consumer Reports/. Check and see. It is quickest

if you search Medline/PubMed by putting quotes around the magazine's name.

 

" Medline even indexes two dozen articles from /Reader's Digest/. (search

for " read dig. " )

 

" Isn't this terrific?

 

" While it is embarrassingly obvious that these are not medical journals,

there is nothing the public can do about it. Medline indexes what its

Literature Selection Technical Review Committee tells it to. The

committee's members are all appointed; none are elected. They meet

behind closed doors. No public input is accepted. (1) No taxpayer can

communicate with them or attend hearings, because there aren't any hearings.

 

" Quite a system, isn't it? But hey, even Al Capone knew that a picked

jury guarantees the verdict. We have a good little racket going here,

and we are not about to change it for 150 million silly

vitamin-pill-popping voters. They will read what we decide they should read.

 

" Some WHOPPER members are concerned that, after this story broke on the

internet, a few nutritional crackpots are writing to their

Congressperson and Senators and demanding action. We understand that

questions being asked include, 'Why is there journal censorship in a

public library? Why the secrecy? Why is an unelected 'advisory'

committee making decisions, in private, about what the public has access

to on the National Library of Medicine's tax-funded Medline service?

Should a select small group, an elite, control a public library in the

Land of the Free?'

 

" Now to reassure you: if you are worried about pressure from the House

and the Senate, relax. The people have better things to do with their

time than to really push their elected representatives for action on

something as small potatoes as the First Amendment. It is true that

American patriot Samuel Adams said, 'When arbitrary rulers are put over

them, when government is secret, the people become alarmed.'

 

" But don't worry. He's dead. "

 

*References:*

 

(1) Correspondence received from Medline: " If the (journal review)

meeting were open to the public, word could circulate about a committee

recommendation before a final determination was made . . . While names

of review committee members are public information, NLM never discloses

names of primary and secondary reviewers for specific journals.

Observers could obtain that information and it could affect the openness

of discussion and might result in contact with specific reviewers after

the meeting. It is NLM's policy to prevent unnecessary contact with

specific reviewers. "

 

For free access to over 600 full-text papers from the /Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine/:

http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/

<http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=48 & e=MTM4ODU= & l=-http--or\

thomolecular.org/library/jom/>

 

For free access to /Fluoride's/ online journal archive:

http://www.fluorideresearch.org/backissues.pdf

<http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=48 & e=MTM4ODU= & l=-http--ww\

w.fluorideresearch.org/backissues.pdf>

 

*Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine*

 

Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to

fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org

<http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=48 & e=MTM4ODU= & l=-http--ww\

w.orthomolecular.org>

 

The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit

and non-commercial informational resource.

 

 

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