What surprises me is my fairly recent discovery that larger-than-life people like Pauling could be "gullible." (Though I'm sure there's a better word for it.) A

What surprises me is my fairly recent discovery that larger-than-life people like Pauling could be "gullible." (Though I'm sure there's a better word for it.) As I'm reading about Pauling and the common cold and cancer and then "every disease known to man", I realized that intelligence alone does not make one immune to self-delusion. I started reading Walter Isaacson's biography on Jobs a few days ago and it's the same realization. I guess I myself was deluded to think that these "titans" are some how superior in every way to "the rest of us."