I see, alexs. You think it is significant and interesting that Pauling lived
beyond the average life expectancy despite the fact that he represents only
one datapoint, but you think it is *not* significant or interesting that he
died of cancer because he only represents one data point.
Sometimes I wish you would just refrain from responding to my messages.
Thanks.
In fact you are one reason I don't spend much time here anymore. I haven't
forgotten the childish ad hominum insults that you hurled at me in a
completely unsolicited private mail.
-gts
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From: "alexs" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [P-F] Will Fasting Permanently Heal Lupus???
> >
> >It's interesting that Linus Pauling spent a great deal of time and energy
> >championing the use of megadosed vitamin C to prevent cancer, and then
died
> >of cancer.
>
> -Actually, it's not interesting, nor significant. Ironic, perhaps.
>
> -Pauling himself stated that he attributed his long life, longer
> than perhaps 90% of other N. Americans, to his ascorbate-rich
> regimen, among other things. That prostate cancer was determined
> as the cause of his death in no way invalidates his well-supporte
> claims of the value of ascorbate and other orthomolecular substances
> and nutrients, and not just for cancer.
>
> -Think of the things he did *not* die of, that kill most people
> before their 93rd year: strokes, heart disease, other cancers,
> rampant infections and pneumonia. That one man died instead of
> living forever says nothing about other countless individuals
> who have benefitted from meganutrient intakes.
>
> -The mean N. Am. life expectancy in 1993, the year of Pauling's death,
> was 73.1 years for white males. He lived 20 years beyond that,
> coincidentally (or was it?) the period during which he took
> his megadoses of ascorbate and other nutrients. Do the math.
>
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