ABSTRACT
The dream of enhancing intelligence is forever with us. In the future, as science fiction writers see it, intelligence will easily be raised by merely taking a thinking pill. In fact, for Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling the future is here; vitamin C is the magic elixir that will not only prevent colds but will raise retarded IQ. There is a sweeping extrapolation from the legitimate supplements for pathological deficiencies (such as phenylketonuria) orsevere nutritional insufficiency, to the use of a generalized, all-purpose potion that will raise low intelligence no matter what the source of the retardation, or even raise intelligence across the entire intellectual spectrum.
