Linus Pauling Connection to I.G. Farben?

Two time Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Oct 17, 2023

Linus an Matthias deserve my sincerest apology upfront, there is a connection but not in the way the world would think the title of my article. However, this story has more to do with Matthias than Linus anyways.

Firstly Linus was a good man and even a great man, for sure one of the greatest minds of modern times. So good was his mind that he won the Noble Prize twice! To save space and time I’m just going clip sections from Linus’s wiki HERE so I can get to Matthias.

Linus Carl Pauling FRS (/ˈpɔːlɪŋ/; February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994)^[4] was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics.^[5] New Scientist called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time,^[6] and as of 2000, he was rated the 16th most important scientist in history.^[7] For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is one of five people to have won more than one Nobel Prize (the others being Marie Curie, John Bardeen, Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless).^[8] Of these, he is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes,^[9] and one of two people to be awarded Nobel Prizes in different fields, the other being Marie Curie.^[8]

Pauling was one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology.^[10] His contributions to the theory of the chemical bond include the concept of orbital hybridisation and the first accurate scale of electronegativities of the elements. Pauling also worked on the structures of biological molecules, and showed the importance of the alpha helix and beta sheet in protein secondary structure. Pauling's approach combined methods and results from X-ray crystallography, molecular model building, and quantum chemistry. His discoveries inspired the work of Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins on the structure of DNA, which in turn made it possible for geneticists to crack the DNA code of all organisms.^[11]

In his later years, he promoted nuclear disarmament, as well as orthomolecular medicine, megavitamin therapy,^[12] and dietary supplements, especially ascorbic acid (commonly known as Vitamin C). None of his ideas concerning the medical usefulness of large doses of vitamins have gained much acceptance in the mainstream scientific community.^[6]^[13] He was married to the American human rights activist Ava Helen Pauling.

At Caltech, Pauling struck up a close friendship with theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley, who spent part of his research and teaching schedule as a visitor at Caltech each year.^[16]^[37] Pauling was also affiliated with Berkeley, serving as a visiting lecturer in physics and chemistry from 1929 to 1934.^[38] Oppenheimer even gave Pauling a stunning personal collection of minerals.^[39] The two men planned to mount a joint attack on the nature of the chemical bond: apparently Oppenheimer would supply the mathematics and Pauling would interpret the results. Their relationship soured when Oppenheimer tried to pursue Pauling's wife, Ava Helen. When Pauling was at work, Oppenheimer came to their home and blurted out an invitation to Ava Helen to join him on a tryst in Mexico. She flatly refused, and reported the incident to Pauling. He immediately cut off his relationship with Oppenheimer.^[16]^: 152^[37]

In the summer of 1930, Pauling made another European trip, during which he learned about gas-phase electron diffraction from Herman Francis Mark. After returning, he built an electron diffraction instrument at Caltech with a student of his, Lawrence Olin Brockway, and used it to study the molecular structure of a large number of chemical substances.^[40]

Pauling introduced the concept of electronegativity in 1932.^[41] Using the various properties of molecules, such as the energy required to break bonds and the dipole moments of molecules, he established a scale and an associated numerical value for most of the elements — the Pauling Electronegativity Scale — which is useful in predicting the nature of bonds between atoms in molecules.^[42]

In 1936, Pauling was promoted to chairman of the division of chemistry and chemical engineering at Caltech, and to the position of director of the Gates and Crellin Laboratories of Chemistry. He would hold both positions until 1958.^[32] Pauling also spent a year in 1948 at the University of Oxford as George Eastman Visiting Professor and Fellow of Balliol.^[43]

In 1967, he moved to the University of California, San Diego, before joining the Stanford faculty as professor of chemistry in 1969, moving in 1974 to the Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Palo Alto.

I highly recommend you to read Linus’s wiki page, as I did a disservice with the huge short cut.

So this guy Dr. Matthias Rath, who is this guy? It’s going to be my pleasure to share with you. Matthias’s wiki reads more like a hit piece on him, but here it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Rath

However, Matthias actually became a close friend and colleague of Linus. Linus even said of Matthias, “There is no doubt in my mind that I was thinking about Dr. Rath as my successor…”.

Here is Matthias bio story:

In 1987, Dr. Rath discovered the connection between vitamin C deficiency and a new risk factor for heart disease- lipoprotein(a). After publication of these research findings in the American Heart Association journal “Arteriosclerosis,” Dr. Rath accepted an invitation to join two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling. In 1990 he went to the United States to become the first Director of Cardiovascular Research at the Linus Pauling Institute in Palo Alto, California.

Dr. Rath worked together with the late Nobel Laureate in various areas of nutritional research. The two scientists became close personal friends who shared common humanistic values, including their determination for peace and justice. In 1994, shortly before his death, Linus Pauling stated: “There is no doubt in my mind that I was thinking about Dr. Rath as my successor.”

Today Dr. Rath heads a research and development institute in nutritional and Cellular Medicine. His institute is conducting basic research and clinical studies to scientifically document the health benefits of micronutrients in fighting a multitude of diseases. Dr. Rath is the founder of the scientific concept of Cellular Medicine, the systematic introduction into clinical medicine of the biochemical knowledge of the role of micronutrients as biocatalysts in a multitude of metabolic reactions at the cellular level. Applying this scientific knowledge in the fight against diseases, he and his research team have identified the following common health conditions as being primarily caused by chronic deficiencies of micronutrients:

Arteriosclerosis (the cause of coronary heart disease and stroke)
High Blood Pressure
Heart Failure
Irregular Heart Beat
Diabetic circulatory problems
Osteoporosis
Many forms of cancer
Immune deficiencies as a precondition for a variety of infectious diseases, including AIDS
Dr. Rath is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Heart Association and other scientific organizations. His popular science books “Why Animals Don’t get Heart Attacks – but People Do” and “Victory Over Cancer” have been translated into multiple languages and read by millions of people.
“Fighting for a medical breakthrough against existing interests and dogmas is like sailing on the ocean,” says Dr. Rath, “the wind that blows in your face becomes your compass.” And he adds: “You don’t have to be a university professor or Nobel Laureate; what counts is that heart attacks, strokes, cancer and many other diseases will essentially be unknown in the future.”
Dr. Rath is an outspoken advocate for patient rights and for free access to natural health worldwide. His advocacy continues to be instrumental in preventing a global ban on natural health therapies on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry. To protect their global market of patented drugs, this industry is seeking a global ban on preventive and therapeutic health information in relation to natural, non-patentable therapies by abusing the United Nations “Codex Alimentarius” (Food Standard) Commission.
In recognition of his civil courage against the pharmaceutical interests and his efforts on behalf of the people of the world, he received the prestigious 2001 “Bulwark of Liberty Award” from the American Preventive Medical Association.
Dr. Rath pioneered a new way of responsible enterpreneurship: all profits from the sales of the micronutrient programs developed at his institute go to the Dr. Rath Health Foundation, a non-profit organization, focusing on research and education in natural health worldwide.
In addition, this non-profit organization supports a broad spectrum of activities in the field of human health, social justice and – most importantly – in the preservation of peace. In this effort Dr. Rath sees the work of his Foundation as following in the spirit of Nobel Peace prizewinners like Linus Pauling, Albert Schweitzer, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.
Dr. Rath comes from a modest background. His parents were farmers in Southern Germany who passed their humanitarian values on to their children. “These values,” says Dr. Rath, “are still a driving force for me. My life is an example that you do not have to be born privileged to make a contribution to a better world.”

Working At The Linus Pauling Institute

I remember the day in early 1990 when I drove into Palo Alto on Page Mill Road. I was full of ideas and plans to confirm the vitamin C-heart disease connection at the experimental level. At 440 Page Mill Road I stopped my car. This was the Linus Pauling Institute in California, where I had been several times before, meeting with Linus during my student days. But this time it was different. Here would be my new workplace, and one of the greatest rides in the history of medical science was waiting for me. I was excited.

Besides Linus, no one knew about the forthcoming scientific earthquake and the sequence of explosions that would detonate at this rather uneventful institute. In order to cover the true nature of this discovery and to protect it from curious colleagues, Linus and I agreed on code language about the project. Even the lecture I had given in early January to the employees of the Pauling Institute had been on the lipoprotein(a) work alone – without mentioning any connection to vitamin C, which, of course, was the truly exciting part of it.

The next morning Linus and I met with the President of the institute. Linus addressed him directly: “I want everyone at the institute to know that Matthias is my personal protégé.” Later I realized that the two-time Nobel Laureate had made this statement not only based on his friendship and common scientific interests with me, but also because he was aware that his institute had become a minefield.

The Pauling Institute had been in existence for two decades but had lost its profile of being a vitamin research institute. Only one out of ten researchers even worked on vitamin C, and millions of dollars in donations from around the world were wasted on research not even remotely related to documenting the health benefits of vitamins. Linus’ last book ‘How To Live Longer And Feel Better’ listed two hundred supporting references, but less than a handful came from his own institute! Clearly, the Nobel Laureate had entrusted his institute into the hands of people who were shy of leading the battle for the acceptance of vitamins for health. Tens of thousands of readers of Linus Pauling’s books connected his name with ongoing vitamin research, but the administration of his institute was ashamed of controversies and taking up the good fight for natural health.

In this situation, Linus, at the age of 90, had obviously realized that this could be his last opportunity to find a young and enthusiastic researcher to carry on his life’s work. However, the announcement that I was his protégé could not have been more threatening to the existing leadership of the institute. I would soon feel the consequences of this. Instead of getting a decent workplace with a desk and chair, I was allocated the corner seat in the windowless storage area of the institute. My request to the institute’s administration for a research assistant who could help in the laboratory was met with the argument that the institute didn’t have the money.

Not willing to give up, I trained the janitor to run the electrophoresis experiments in the laboratory so I could concentrate on elaborating the details of the medical breakthrough. Weeks, perhaps months, were lost and it was not until a year later that I finally got a qualified research assistant.

Key experiments for the medical breakthrough

I had already made the principal discovery of the vitamin C deficiency-lipoprotein(a) connection back in 1987. Now the door was wide open for the scientific proof. I set up a study with guinea pigs, an animal that shares the same genetic defect as human beings. These animals cannot produce their own vitamin C. The experiment was straightforward. My theory was that guinea pigs develop arteriosclerotic deposits once they are put on a vitamin C deficient diet. Moreover, by analyzing the deposits in the animals’ artery walls we would find the sticky lipoprotein(a) fat molecules.

The significance of this key experiment for the health and lives of millions of people could not be underestimated. This experiment would enable the conclusion that a similar mechanism takes place in the human body. The lack of vitamin C would weaken the blood vessel walls and subsequently lipoprotein(a), cholesterol and other risk factors in the blood would be deposited in the artery walls to mend them. That would prove that fatty deposits in the arteries are not a coincidence or just ‘fate’, and that cardiovascular diseases develop as an inevitable response of the body to repair blood vessel walls that are weakened by vitamin deficiency.

The moment of truth

The key experiment was carried out over five weeks, one of the longest five weeks of my life. Of course, animal experiments have to be kept to an absolute minimum. But since this experiment would have meaning for the health and lives of millions of people, it had been approved by the animal care committee of the institute. I still remember the day when the experiment was over, and I looked at the artery walls of the guinea pigs under the microscope. The guinea pigs receiving vitamin C at a daily dose comparable to the human recommended daily allowance (RDA) had developed the same deposits in their artery walls that cause heart attacks and strokes in human beings. However, those animals that received the equivalent of two teaspoonfuls of vitamin C per day, comparable to human body weight, had maintained clean arteries. Most importantly, this striking difference was not obtained by adding cholesterol or fat to the animals’ diet, but by omitting one single factor from it: vitamin C.

That day I felt like Columbus must have felt at the first sight of land in 1492, after years of struggle and overcoming adversities. I went to Dorothy Munroe, Linus Pauling’s secretary, and asked her where I could reach him to share the exciting news. She noticed my excitement and said: ”Go right in, he is in his office.” I didn’t even close the door behind me, and shouted: “Linus, you’ve got to come and see this!”

He had been dictating letters and correspondence in his typical posture, half lying in his chair with his feet on the desk. His black beret was drawn deep over his eyes, in order to dim the neon light of his office. He jumped up, adjusted his beret, and walked with me to the room where the guinea pig arteries had been placed under the microscope. The results left no doubt: an optimal amount of vitamin C was the solution to the cardiovascular epidemic.

After looking through the microscope for a few minutes Linus rose, turned around, and beamed at me: “I am happy as a clam,” he said. He took me by the arm, and we went to his office to immediately discuss the next steps, as well as the implications for human health.

That evening, when I drove home, I knew that medicine would never again be the same. Thoughts were appearing like flashes in my mind, and a breathtaking perspective was opening up. I saw people around the world embracing this discovery, and researchers tuning in to further confirm it at all levels. I imagined the morning news opening up with the headline: ‘Heart disease close to eradication’. I could see a new research institute rising into the sky. How could I know that the fight for the acceptance of this simple truth had just began, and that years of fierce battles lay ahead of me.

On 18 June, 2011, Dr. Rath gave a landmark lecture at the Foundation's 'Movement of Life' conference event in Warsaw, Poland. Explaining how the fundamental forces of life and human dignity have shaped our world, he summarized the Chemical Cartel's three attempts at world conquest and described how the historic role of the 'Movement of Life' is the basis for the liberation of mankind from its dependencies upon the Cartel.

If it were up to me, I give Dr. Matthias Rath a Noble Prize for his work and speaking truth. God Bless you and I hope to meet you Matthias one day.

The truth is Dr. Pauling’s connection is through Dr. Rath as he was trying to sound the alarm about I.G. Farben well before the world even had a clue about what was going on. Me especially. I hope the video help George Webb. Hi George!

Dr. Rath’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RathFoundation/videos

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