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Or maybe the quality of the data they produce is less than adequate. The skepticism about orthomolecular medicine comes in part because some of its proponents make claims more broad than those supported by double-blind randomized controlled studies. Allopathic medicine attaches great importance to rigorous double-blind randomized controlled trials to prove a treatment is effective and to exclude the placebo effect. Orthomolecular medicine proponents, on the other hand, believe that such studies overemphasize presupposed minimization of uncertainty in measurement and have instead led to false-negative results from otherwise poorly designed and executed studies that resulted in misrepresented "authoritative" disparagement of nutritional treatments.

Approximately 5,000 of the world's leading biomedical journals are indexed in MEDLINE. Selection is based on the recommendations of a panel, the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, based on scientific policy and scientific quality. Additionally, Medline influences researchers in their choice of journals in which to publish. Few biomedical researchers today would consider publishing in a journal not indexed by Medline, because then other researchers would not find (and cite) their work.

The orthomolecular field is controversial among mainstream medical organizations, including the American Cancer Society, the American Psychiatric Association, the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Academy of Pediatrics, CHAMPUS, and the Canadian Paediatric Society. A number of individuals and organizations contest the claims, benefits, degree of evidence and toxicity.


http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3X_Orthomolecular_Medicine.as...


The American Academy of Pediatrics labelled orthomolecular medicine a "cult" in 1976, in response to claims that orthomolecular medicine could cure childhood psychoses and learning disorders.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abs...

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