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On one hand, I like the publishing policy of NIH, because more dissemination of information is a good thing.

But on the other, so many people gloss over or are just blatantly unaware that NIH specifically doesn't endorse anything about anything published there, that they're just a clearing house. And then people either infer authority from the domain, or they use that to consciously or subconsciously push their belief.



It is the National Library of Medicine, which is a database maintained by NIH.

The journal this article is from is from is Cureus: https://www.cureus.com/

Their tagline seems to be "publishing beyond open access" and to my eye at least looks like a 3rd tier journal.

But NIH really has nothing to do with it, they're just a catalog. Libraries have tons of bullshit in them. You are supposed to be the filter.




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