Spokane news story: orthomolecular microbiologist does blood analysis

This is from Health clinic under investigation, by Bill Morlin, a reporter for the Spokane Spokesman-Review. (Morlin wrote the first story linking Dixie Randock and Ken Pearson to various "Liberian" degree-granting enterprises.)

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Interesting. The term "orthomolecular medicine" has been ascribed to Linus Pauling (a chemist whom even a physicist can respect). Orthomolecular medicine suggests that illnesses are caused by chemical imbalances that can be corrected by vitamin therapy.

Pauling published a paper in Science on the topic: Pauling, L., Orthomolecular psychiatry. Varying the concentrations of substances normally present in the human body may control mental disease. Science. 160(825): 265-71, 1968.

My personal connection to all of this is that my office (shared with other students) back in the early 80's had formerly been Pauling's office at around the time that he developed these theories. The same floor of that small building also had the labs and offices of Paul Flory (Nobel Prize in 1974) and Henry Taube (Nobel Prize in 1983, while I was there).