[david Harker Asked: Dr Pauling,

..the Truly Fraudulent Claims Must Be Discarded. But Novel Methods Of Therapy Should Not Be Rejected Because They Are Novel, Or Because They Run Counter To Some Generally Accepted Belief ("which May Just Be Biased"), Or Because We Do Not Understand The Mechanism Of The Proposed Treatment, Or Because It Has Come From An Unconventional Source.

Everyone Should Know That Most Cancer Research Is Largely A Fraud, And That The Major Cancer Research Organizations Are Derelict In Their Duties To The People Who Support Them.

We May Say That Life Has Borrowed From Inanimate Processes The Same Basic Mechanism Used In Producing Those Striking Structures That Are Crystals, With Their Beautiful Plane Faces.

Satisfaction Of One's Curiosity Is One Of The Greatest Sources Of Happiness In Life.

During The Time That [karl] Landsteiner Gave Me An Education In The Field Of Imununology, I Discovered That He And I Were Thinking About The Serologic Problem In Very Different Ways. He Would Ask, What Do These Experiments Force Us To Believe About The Nature Of The World? I Would Ask, What Is The Most. Simple And General Picture Of The World That We Can Formulate That Is Not Ruled By These Experiments? I Realized That Medical And Biological Investigators Were Not Attacking Their Problems The Same Way That Theoretical Physicists Do, The Way I Had Been In The Habit Of Doing.