Crumbling healthcare
May 9, 2021
Linus Pauling, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, proposed in the 1970s that eating large doses of vitamin C can cure the common cold.
His hypothesis was not based on any empirical evidence but because of his scientific expertise, it became popular and was adopted by doctors throughout the world. It would take almost 30 years before this claim was debunked by scientists in Australia and Iceland. Robert Douglas and Harri Hemila looked at 55 previous studies and found that even daily vitamin C doses of 2g – 33 times more than the recommended amount – failed to keep away the sniffles.
This episode highlighted the fact that science is evolving, and even highly qualified scientists can make mistakes. The fickleness of science, however, is no reason for abandoning it altogether. There are self-correcting mechanisms within most of scientific endeavors that make it better than any of the alternatives.
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