tors recommend it He has been working on the ■itamin C hypothesis for over 10 years and Pauling Bow feels his views are finally being accepted. “I’ve received hun dreds of letters from physi cians and patients who either have cancer or just want advice for / taking ■itamin c”, he stated. This is not the first ■me he has been in the middle of controversy, Dur ing the cold war, he spoke ■ut consistently on the ■angers of nuclear war. ■For 45 years of my life, I ■wallowed the dictum that the scientist shouldn’t Clackamas Community < speak out on other sub jects,” he said. “It’s especially sinful when he or she injects it better than those who always speak out on the subject/’ Paul ing laughed. , Yet, he feels that it is the scientists’ duty to in form the wbrld and educate the people of current ac tivities, but they shouldn’t threaten the world with pro phecy’s. “The scientist has more right to speak up about social and political issues of the day, because almost no question comes up that science isn’t involv ed with.” Pauling was then questioned on the ex periments of Dr. Phillip Schockley, who argued that hereditary factors are the most important ele ment in genetic engineer ing. He claimed that blacks are genetically inferior and intelligent genes can be in herited. “I don’t believe it’s a scientific discovery,” Pauling said “Yes, it (genes) determines heredi ty to some extent, but Shockly wanted to extend it to entire groups and races.” Despite his opinion of Schockley, Pauling sees the U.S. as the leaders of science. “We have more scientists than any other nation on earth,” he said. “America makes half of the world’s discoveries.” Pauling warned that if the science budget isn’t in creased with the inflation rate, science will suffer. “There’s a conspiracy on the government’s part to put the money elsewhere,” he said. “It is scandolous that we should be suffering from Inflation and strikes because of the military budget. Everyone is going to suffer.” Pauling has been given honorary doctorates by 30 universities, in cluding Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Princeton, Melbourne, and Berlin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 for his research on the nature of chemical bonds and its applications to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances. His second Nobel Prize came in 1963 when he was awarded the prize for peace. Pauling has publish ed over 400 scientific papers and 100 articles on social and political ques tions. Page 7