bmart:
Thank you for your response. I knew that in the face of incontrovertible evidence that your statements were inaccurate, I could count on you to ask for even more evidence of their inaccuracy. Let's see if we can't put a few more nails in the coffin of your credibility.
To do so we're going to do a number of Medline searches. First, for those not familiar with Medline, what is it?:
What is MEDLINE? MEDLINE is the NLM's (NLM = National Library of Medicine) online database that contains almost 10 million references to journal articles in the health sciences. Some facts:
Time covered. 1966 to the present
Source. 3,900 journals in 40 languages; 52% published in the U.S.
88% of the current references are to articles in English
76% of the references have English abstracts
Weekly update. 7,300 references are added weekly (almost 400,000 yearly)
Broad coverage. Basic research and the clinical sciences (including nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, and allied health)
nlm.nih.gov
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Medline is the online counterpart of Index Medicus ("ask" Pugs if he's heard of Index Medicus). Not every journal gets indexed, the standards as to which do are spelled out in wwwindex.nlm.nih.gov.
You will note that the standards are based on a review of the relative scientific merit of the journal (In other words, if you're going to claim it can't be found on Medline, you might just consider what that says about the quality of the journal it appeared in and the importance of the research.)
The utility of this source for medical researchers, including oncology research fellows, is reflected in the many sites offering free Medline services. Here's a list: docnet.org.uk
We will now do a Medline search of the following questions:
1. Between 1966 and 1998, how many journal articles in the Medline database list AZNT's Dr. Loricchio as an author? (Answer: zero)
2. Just for fun, how many list A. Lore as an author*? (More than zero)
3. How many list GR Pettit as an author? (Many)
4. How many include any or all of the following non-words from your post
( #reply-5617622 ) among the terms searchable via Medline? (note that both the title and the abstract are searchable):
phyllanthatin
phyllantbus
murinep-338
(Zero in each case)
5. How many include 'phyllanthostatin' among such terms? (Two)
6. How many articles in Portuguese are included in the Medline database? (32,000+)
7. How many journals in the Medline database contain the word 'BRASILEIRA' or 'BRASILEIROS' or 'BRASILEIRO' in their title? (26)
All of the searches except the last will be made from the following free Medline site: infotrieve.com (In the event you need the detailed instructions below, you may wish to print out this page or leave it open in a second browser window before going to the Infotrieve page.)
1. To determine the number of journals in the Medline database from 1966-1998 include Dr. Loricchio as an author, first go to the box marked database and select all of the possible otions on the list. If you're using a PC this can be accomplished by going to the bottom of the list under 'database' and shift clicking the option 'AIDSLINE' (so in addition to the Medline journals we'll also access two additional databases). Now go to the 'author' field (third box down from the top) and type in "loricchio" (without the quotes). Now click on the 'search' button. You should get a page indicating four documents were found. By clicking on each of the four in turn, you can confirm that each involves research co-authored by someone named M.L. Loricchio, not Domingos Loricchio. So the answer to question 1 appears to be zero. To me this seems like an unexpectedly small number for someone proclaimed as "one of the most important contributors to medical and practical science in the 20th century"
( #reply-5562768 ). Well, no doubt his medical genius is expressed in some other fashion.
2. Use your browser's back button to go back to the search screen. Replace "loricchio" with the string "lore#" (w/o quotes), and press 'search' again. This search should identify 104 documents. Not all of them are co-authored by individuals whose first intial is "A", but there are a few authored by "A. Lore". So it would appear that, at least based on the number of publications in the Medline database, "I" am among the most important contributors to medical science in the 20th century*.
3. Go back to the main search screen and replace "lore#" with "pettit ADJ gr" (w/o quotes). Hit search. 347 documents returned. Sic transit gloria mundi for "me".
4. Return to the main search screen again and erase the entry in the 'author' box. Go to the top box labeled 'All Fields' and search in succession for
"phyllanthatin" (w/o quotes)
"phyllantbus" (w/o quotes)
'murinep-338' (with single quotes - you're also welcome to try it without quotes)
The result should be no hits
5. On the main search screen replace the entry in the 'All Fields' box with
"phyllanthostatin" (w/o quotes). You should get exactly two documents, both by G.R. Pettit. By clicking on each hit in turn, you can confirm that neither includes Dr. Loricchio as an author (this, of course, is a given from the answer to question 1). One is the article mentioned in my reply #reply-5676313. The other, infotrieve.com , does not mention the murine P-388 lymphocytic leukemia cell line.
6. Go back to the main search screen and erase all entries in the top 4 boxes. Go to the language list box, click on Portuguese. Hit search. You should find 32,000+ documents in the database are in Portuguese.
7. For the final search, we will need to move to a different search page. Go to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , and enter "brasi*" (w/o quotes) in the lone box and hit enter. There are 26 journals that contain one of the three indicated words (all of which I believe are variants of the word 'Brazilian' in Portuguese).
* Lest some extraordinarily gullible person get the wrong idea: Arcane Lore is a pseudonym. I am not the author of any of the articles by A. Lore. |
