Mnementh said:
This is no paper by the NIH. You seem to miss basic reading skills, because it says so at the very top in a highlighted box: "As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature. Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health." The paper is authored by a Helene Banoun. Which is surprising, as it is the only name, usually scientific papers are plastered with a lot of names. But here only one. Helene Banoun is not in the employ of any scientific institution, her status is listed as "Independent Researcher". She was working for a french institute... in the 80s, four decades ago. This paper doesn't hold the authority you seem to imply. |
This doesn't change your conclusions but I thought it worth mentioning: Most research papers have multiple people as they involved performing experiments and it's tough to do all the experiments for a paper on your own (usually there's at least an advisor and a person that does the experiments). This however appears to be more of a review or an opinion piece which will not contain any new experimental results and I have seen a number of these with a single author on the list.
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