Way of Life:Linus Pauling: Father of the Megavitamin Craze

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Linus Pauling (1901-1994) was both a great scientist and a great quack, which is a loud warning that anyone can fall to the siren call of quackery.
Pauling taught at the California Institute of Technology for more than 40 years and was the first person to be the recipient of two unshared Nobel prizes. He also won the National Medal of Science, the Medal for Merit, awarded by the U.S. president, and received honorary degrees from Cambridge, the University of London, and the University of Paris. He appeared on the cover of Time magazine and was “hailed as one of the.. Read More

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