Rather, he formed his own fringe journal and fringe community where he can brood about the conspiracy of mainstream psychiatry and rail against the dogma of rigorous scientific research.
I think the most important issue here is the blatent hypocracy with your "scientific research" argument. While you are so critical of orthomolecular medicines' perceived lack of empirical evidence, you remain conspicuously complacent with the very same lack of it in the mainstream medical community. RDA's were not based on any empirical evidence, just to use one example.
As for conspiracy theories...what about political lobbying? In the United States, three of the five biggest political lobbyists in terms of dollars spent are pharmaceutical companies, private hospital insurance companies, and the American Medical Association. This alone speaks volumes about them pushing their agendas forward at the expense of those whose views conflict with their profit motives.
And, I am very sorry if you trivialize this as being a mere conspiracy theory. The reality is that vitamins are safer, cheaper, and more effective than the toxic, patented alternatives forced through the regular channels. Otherwise, they would not be spending the volumes of money they do in the United States alone. Just perhaps, these organizations see Orthomolecular Medicine as a genuine and sincere threat.
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And, as for Dr. Hoffer being a quack,,,
He is the only doctor known who has had an undergraduate degree in Agriculture Nutritional Sciences. He said himself in his video, Feed Your Head, that I have met many other doctors from all around the world. I cannot say that no one else has ever had an undergraduate background in nutritional sciences, but I have never met anyone,
Dr. Hoffer never treated people with psychotherapy. He said that when people get well, they don't need psychotherapy. He would see people on average about 2 - 3 times. The first time was the original consultation. The second one was a 6 week follow up. If someone was not good after 3-6 months, they were to come back. Many did not need that many treatments.
Having said this, he had a 2 1/2 year waiting list to get in to see him. I don't know of any other psychiatrists who have these kinds of waiting lists to get in.
Dr. Linus Pauling is a Nobel Laureate in medical research. Perhaps he is more up on empirical evidence and the rigours of scientific protocol than most other doctors and medical researchers in their fields.
Thier names and their records speak for themselves. So does the amount of political lobbying by the AMA, the private hopital insurers, and the Pharmaceutical industry who would actively censor, and be allowed to censor anything that worked contrary to their corporate interests.
