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The post-AIDS sensibility has spread to academics, and Vitamin C and Cancer is a scion. On one side stands always noble Linus Pauling and his faithful disciple Ewan Cameron, on the other is the entire medical establishment. The stakes are high. If vitamin C can cure cancer, patients can treat themselves, and the multi-billion dollar cancer industry will be destroyed. The author of this volume, siding with Pauling, contends that the tests conducted at the Mayo Clinic on the efficacy of vitamin C were rigged for failure while couched in the language of science. Clearly a Pauling-Cameron partisan, Richards is a well-trained scholar who presents all of the material available about the dispute in a well-organized, readable form. The book is adequately annotated and has an extensive bibliography. It will appeal to those who love conspiracy theories and will bother many orthodox practitioners who feel that Pauling should rest on the laurels of his two Nobel prizes (Physics and Peace) and leave medicine to them. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students as well as informed general readers.-I. Richman, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
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