[aruanan]

LOL. I take it you aren't the biggest Linus Pauling fan.

In his field he was great. In devising adequate human trials for determining the efficacy of vitamin C in treating cancer patients, he sucked. The patients that didn't get vitamin C stayed at home with relatively little interaction with medical personnel. The ones that did get vitamin C got a lot of caring human interaction. It wasn't surprising that the ones with TLC did a bit better than those without it. The paper about this study wasn't peer-reviewed because the editor thought it would be a slight to such a famous guy. That bit of genuflection before misplaced authority has caused much mischief over the years.

[Sofa King]

He didn't use placebos?