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Suggesting that Linus Pauling was wrong about vitamin C is an interesting choice. In my opinion he's looking more and more prescient. https://nypost.com/2020/
by msandford 6y ago
Suggesting that Linus Pauling was wrong about vitamin C is an interesting choice. In my opinion he's looking more and more prescient.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/new-york-hospitals-treating-coronavirus-patients-with-vitamin-c/ https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/new-york-hospitals-treating-co...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996765/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937164/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937164/
Just because someone looks silly to their contemporaries doesn't mean they're wrong. Look at Semmelweis. He figured out germs well before Pasteur. Doctors didn't accept it because they didn't like the implications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
Sagan says it best. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/85171-one-of-the-saddest-lessons-of-history-is-this-if https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/85171-one-of-the-saddest-le...
- perl4ever 6y agoI wasn't stating that he was "wrong", I was suggesting that regardless of whether you can find any merit to any of his opinions, it was kind of an odd, dubious obsession that people don't uniformly respect unlike other accomplishments he had.