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nomadreid
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I am having a discussion with a friend who advocates "ozone therapy": re-injection of your blood after being enriched with ozone, done by a doctor. Since I am very skeptical of this fad (all I can see is that ozone destroys double bonds in carbon chains, which does not seem like a good thing-- for my friend, anything a doctor says is OK, is OK. I am not of that persuasion), I am trying to find appropriate objective scientific papers (not "healthline" websites) on it.
(Miles Power does some nice YouTube videos "Ozone Therapy Debunked", but YouTube is hardly a citation.)
I notice that all the scientific journals publishing online articles favourable to ozone therapy seem to be published in PMC (PubMed Central), which allows, among other things, OpenAccess journals, which of course include a lot of non-peer reviewed journals, which in their turn include a lot of pseudoscientific (often predatory) journals. The status of some of the journals is difficult to ascertain: for example, one is the Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine, which is a journal published in India; beyond that, I could find no references to it.
Of course, even non-peer reviewed journals can contain good sources, and there are e.g. PubMed citations in the references, but as I do not have access to them, I am unable to check whether the original article is misquoting or misinterpreting conclusions from the peer-reviewed sources.
Therefore, a question to those-in-the-know: can one rely on PMC journals?
(Miles Power does some nice YouTube videos "Ozone Therapy Debunked", but YouTube is hardly a citation.)
I notice that all the scientific journals publishing online articles favourable to ozone therapy seem to be published in PMC (PubMed Central), which allows, among other things, OpenAccess journals, which of course include a lot of non-peer reviewed journals, which in their turn include a lot of pseudoscientific (often predatory) journals. The status of some of the journals is difficult to ascertain: for example, one is the Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine, which is a journal published in India; beyond that, I could find no references to it.
Of course, even non-peer reviewed journals can contain good sources, and there are e.g. PubMed citations in the references, but as I do not have access to them, I am unable to check whether the original article is misquoting or misinterpreting conclusions from the peer-reviewed sources.
Therefore, a question to those-in-the-know: can one rely on PMC journals?