An article that would dispute this can be found at:

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pauling.html

The page sometimes loads very slowly.

I make no judgment either way, although I do take 2 grams of Vitamin C a day
and rarely ever get a cold since I started supplementing.

Arthur McConnachie
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-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.