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In January 1985, the New England Journal of Medicine published the second negative study by Mayo Clinic researchers of the effectiveness of vitamin C as a cancer treatment. Once again, the media descended on the beleaguered Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. Three months later, Dr Linus Pauling dispatched a registered letter to the editor of the Journal accusing him of publishing a ‘fraudulent’ paper and of being involved in a ‘conspiracy to suppress the truth’.
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Richards, E. (1991). Introduction. In: Vitamin C and Cancer: Medicine or Politics?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09606-0_1
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