Comments:Vitamin C can help prevent cancer say the National Institutes of Health
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WHOOPS! IT TURNS OUT THAT CANCER IS ACTUALLY JUST SCURVY, OH GEE, SORRY GUYS! (joking ;D)
But seriously, 50%? Fephisto (talk) 16:23, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Why 38 years to inject[edit]
If originally tested in 1970 via oral doseage, why would it have taken 38 years to attempt a similar experiment via injection? Where is the innovation, where is the aggressive pursuit of answers, the vigorous testing of variables. I'm happy to hear that we are finally making some progress, but I am a little disappointed that such progress was not made 37 years ago. I'm hardly a scientist, but there is no doubt in my mind that if I had been the one to test oral vitamin C, I also would have been the one to test vitamin C injections, and I don't mean 38 years later. Leeuwenhoek would have turned over in his grave if he knew of such non-sense.
Is it not common knowledge that vitamin C is the number one recommended vitamin for preventing illness, does it not follow that someone (perhaps a scientist) would investigate the antioxidant's ability to act upon various pathogens? I would anticipate that the public expects the scientific community to start with the obvious and most easily accessed disease fighting agents, before spending large sums of money on the perverse and less probable concoctions. If this is not happening then change is long overdue... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doctor Zkon (talk • contribs) 05:45, 4 November 2008 (UTC)