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Old September 1st, 2004 #7
Steve B
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Originally Posted by Keystone
That "story" is wrong on so many levels it's not even funny.

Charles Glen King isolated and synthesized vitamin C in 1931-32 in his own lab at Thaw Hall, at the University of Pittsburgh, which is still in use today.

The old Army barracks which the Chem Dept used on "Cardiac Hill" behind Pitt Stadium burned down a few years later and were never used by King or Jonas Salk.

King left Pitt in the early 40's to concentrate on nutrition science exclusively. He never had anything to do with the polio vaccine. Salk arrived at Pitt in 1947.

Researchers at Harvard came up with a way to grow viruses on small bits of tissue culture without a host organism (chicken embryo). That allowed Salk to grow a shitload of polio virus for study. It's also in the public record.

I'm from Pittsburgh and attended Pitt. You can fool some of the people some of the time.....

This email sounds similar to the "New Yorker's" tale about the drunken Orthodox jew on the subway train. Bogus.

You can do better than this, Linder.
I'd like to keep an open mind until all the evidence is in...if it's ok with you, Key?