> Now I count him as a delusional and deluding self-promoter. I think there is probably a context to Linus Pauling's making an end-run around the medical-indus

> Now I count him as a delusional and deluding self-promoter. I think there is probably a context to Linus Pauling's making an end-run around the medical-industrial complex of his day. My understanding is that the physiologists were making progress in figuring out how biological systems work, while the pharmaceutical industry was coming up with new patent medicines to sell. Medicine has always been a more practical science than a theoretical one, so the doctors understandably tended to listen to the drug companies more than the physiologists. Linus Pauling singlehandedly did more to make the public at large appreciate the importance of nutrients than anyone else.