David, it's a pharma world and we have to try things to heal ourselves..hear from other people's and friends' experiences and go from there. Big funding isn't going to happen for supplements...there is some funding done by the mfgrs but that's about it. Pauling has a long history and even won Nobel prize(s). To this day the FDA will not approve IV Vit C in cancer treatments. The longer one lives, the more one sees what goes on if eyes are open.