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> They will sanction any sort of quackery... pubmed doesn't 'sanction' anything. it just a database of published articles.

• CamperBob2 4y ago
  By including an article in their database and linking to it from a .gov website, they most certainly are giving it a stamp of approval in the eyes of the public. Sure, that's like saying that Google approves of a given page just because they pull it up in response to a search query. But that goes back to my original point: no intelligent person (or true Scotsman) would back up their argument by saying "Go search Google" and leave it at that. A hypothetical https://www.google.gov https://www.google.gov would be held to very different standards than Google is today. I'd like to say the same about PubMed, but can't.