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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative,sci.med
- Subject: Re: Orthomolecular Approaches to Medicine
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 01:58:56 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- In article <PHR.92Dec22192040@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
- > [Linus Pauling] just about won a third Nobel for discovering the
- > double helix of DNA but because of his fight against above ground
- > nuclear testing he was labeled a subversive and not allowed to
- > travel to France where they had powerful enough electron
- > microscopes to allow him to do his research. He speculated that
- > DNA had structure something like a rope (which is pretty close in
- > my opinion!).
-
- A. An electron microscope won't tell you a damn thing about
- atomic structure.
-
- B. Pauling was completely on the wrong trail at the time. Read "The Double
- Helix" by Watson if you want to know the detail of the research.
-
- C. DNA has nothing to do with "orthomolecular medicine."
-
- D. What Pauling wanted to travel abroad for was the use of X-ray
- crystallography equipment. It wouldn't have done him all that much
- good, since at the time, X-ray diffraction work was almost pure
- voodoo, owing to the difficulty of the mathematics (which are now
- much more easily solved owing to cheap computer time).
-
- --scott
-