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
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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.
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