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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Re: Vitamin C
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 19:33:06 EST
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> Concerning this experiment at the Mayo clinic I would like to know if
> the vitamin C used was natural or synthetic. 
	
	At least tjs didn't go on to claim that natural and synthetic
Vitamin C were chemically different. Although I haven't heard of Vitamin
P per se - I will accept that Bioflavenoids are a real entity. However,
it seems like nit-picking. The argument, "Well, the reason it didn't
work was because you didn't do the experiment right." seems to be grasping
at straws.  Even Linus Pauling Institute, on this very net, admitted
that the best they could get (and they are quite partisan) was barely
statistically significant, certainly not dramatic.
	(By "partisan", I make no judgement of their scientific rigor,
which I expect to be very good.)
	
> I do know that is very difficult for medical people to
> withold their medical marvels because they feel they are depriving the
> patient.

	Try telling that to:
		1. the patients
		2. the malpractice lawyers.

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				Craig Werner
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