Most of the "public" have never heard the word "orthomolecular", and most of those who have,  probably don't know much about it.  Many of the current "Alternate Health" therapists use a lot of the therapies developed by Abram Hoffer, Carl Pfeiffer, and Linus Pauling. 

The word was coined by Linus, and it means "To correct (ortho) at the molecular level, i.e. using the basics of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes to correct various deficiencies and imbalances,  thus solving various health problems.  (It's a strange word with both Greek and Latin derivative parts.)

Because the orthomolecular therapies do not use drugs, they  seriously threaten Big Pharma's profits, and since most Medical Journals depend on Big Pharma's advertising for survival, there is no truth about vitamins etc, and actually quite a bit of lies, and misinformation available to doctors in these "respected" Med journals. 
This is further complicated by Big Pharma's control and corruption of the FDA and CDC, and their  employees  publishing stories with phony research about vitamins, particularly about vitamins C, and E, etc.  If the truth about only vitamin C was widely known, it would put hundreds of profitable drugs out of business, so Big Pharma hides truth and lies about these with phony tests.  For more info about vitamin C therapy that works for colds and flu, etc -m http://drbate.com/Ref/C.html

I became a member of the Orthomolecular Society in 1980, and became personal friends with both Abram and Carl over the next several years.  I was the only PhD psychologist member who was "curing" schizophrenic patients without drugs at all.  Of course, I was called a "quack" by MD's, but I solved schizophrenia in every patient I had with it.   My book "The Health Revolution" details most of this.

Today I received the following article from the Orthomolecular Society, and I am reprinting it here with permission.  I found it very interesting as a part of the history of the corruption of medicine by Big Pharma, and how money controls medicine. 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 15, 2010
 

NLM Censors Nutritional Research
Medline is Biased, and Taxpayers Pay for It

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?
And what are the consequences of such exclusion? In a nutshell, it stops the public from using their computers to learn about all of the scientific research and clinical reports demonstrating the effectiveness of megavitamin (orthomolecular) therapy. It also greatly hampers professionals from seeing pro-vitamin studies. Have you ever wondered why your doctor simply does not know about vitamin therapy? Well, wonder no longer. He or she can't read what isn't "collected," electronically indexed, or otherwise "made available" to them. If the vast majority of journals indexed by Medline are pharmaceutical-friendly, and yet nutritional research is censored, what can you expect?
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.
Of course, Medline doesn't censor everything nutritional. Here is a current example of some research that Medline does in fact choose to index:
PIZZA PREVENTS HEART ATTACKS
Gallus S, Tavani A, La Vecchia C. Pizza and risk of acute myocardial infarction. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2004 Nov;58(11):1543-6.
"Some of the ingredients of pizza have been shown to have a favourable influence on the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, there is no single explanation for the present findings."
PIZZA PREVENTS CANCER
Gallus S, Bosetti C, Negri E, Talamini R, Montella M, Conti E, Franceschi S, La Vecchia C. Does pizza protect against cancer? Int J Cancer. 2003 Nov 1;107(2):283-4.
"We analyzed the potential role of pizza on cancer risk, using data from an integrated network of case-control studies. . . Pizza appears therefore to be a favorable indicator of risk for digestive tract neoplasms in this population."
But be careful of that olive oil:
Wong GA, King CM. Occupational allergic contact dermatitis from olive oil in pizza making. Contact Dermatitis. 2004 Feb;50(2):102-3.
MORE PIZZA
Here is my all-time favorite: yet another article that Medline actually is indexing. It is not even from a medical journal. I am not making its mile-long title up, either. It is there at Medline, right now, just a few clicks away from you:
Simon HB. "My husband subscribes to Harvard Men's Health Watch, but I read it even more than he does. I hope you can help us resolve a disagreement. He wants to have pizza two to three times a week for his prostate, but I don't think it's a healthy food. Who is right?" (Harvard Men's Health Watch. 2003 Jun;7(11):8.)
Evidently the very name "Harvard" is enough to get your foot inside the Medline door. That, or "everything but anchovies."
Oddly enough, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has not published a single article on pizza. At least not so far. Maybe if it did, it would make the cut at Medline.
On the other hand, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has a review board including medical doctors, university faculty, and hospital-based researchers. Since 1967, it has published over 600 papers by renowned authors including Roger J. Williams, Emanuel Cheraskin, Carl C. Pfeiffer, Bernard Rimland, Abram Hoffer, and Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. You should be able to access abstracts (concise summaries) of these papers, instantly and for free, via Medline.
Well, you can't.
To contact the US National Library of Medicine/Medline and tell them what you think: custserv@nlm.nih.gov
"The National Library of Medicine refuses to index the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, though it is peer-reviewed and seems to meet their criteria." (Psychology Today, Nov-Dec 2006)
NOTE: Four decades of papers from the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine are now online for you to read, Medline or no Medline, at http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/ The JOM Archive is a free service with no advertising.
(Andrew W. Saul taught nutrition, health science and cell biology at the college level. He is the author of Doctor Yourself and Fire Your Doctor! and, with Dr. Abram Hoffer, co-author of Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone and The Vitamin Cure for Alcoholism. Saul is featured in the documentary film Food Matters. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.)
Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine
Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org
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