He also opposed the Korean and Vietnam wars, opposed american interventionism in Latinoamerica and was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the USSR.

  • anthropicprincipal [any]
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    4 years ago

    He was also batshit insane.

    He believed in Vitamin C cures for everything from cancer to the common cold.

    • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      People are still dying to this day by forgoing chemo- and radiation therapy and just injecting themselves with vitamins.

      I don't understand how he managed to make actual, fundamentally important biochemistry discoveries if he was such a crank.

  • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Which is ridiculous because communists are not pacifists

    We're all for revolutionary war

  • itsPina [he/him, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    He looks like either penn or teller idk which is which he could also play a garden gnome pretty well if he wanted to land a new gig

  • 420bootywizard [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    That era of biochemistry has a lot of interesting history to it.

    Pauling and Watson both come off as egomaniacs, except Pauling had a much more legitimate "genius" to back it up.