Edited sentence: However, the LSTRC selection committee are themselves chosen by US government officials.Notably, the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine which is supported by the British Society for Ecological Medicine has also been refused indexing on both occasions it applied.Publication of objective criteria for inclusion of medical journals is long overdue as perceived subjectivity may lead to MEDLINE being replaced by more modern alternatives, such as Google scholar.Such bias against orthomolecular medicine was a well described feature of the later years of the chemist Linus Pauling who named the discipline.The Journal of orthomolecular medicine has been repeatedly refused indexing over a period of 35 years leading to claims of bias by Dr Abram Hoffer and Dr Andrew Saul amongst others.The process is thus open to institutional bias and the selection of journals has been described as a means of censorship in medicine