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by brownbat 2547 days ago
The benefits of Vitamin C have been wildly overstated, thanks mainly to Linus Pauling, whose theories on its therapeutic and preventative effects have been consistently debunked in large studies, with some studies even associating high doses of Vitamin C with increases in some types of cancer in mice:

https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pauling.h...