It was almost surprise mixed with fustration to have confirmation from a 1970s nutritional book that the war on alternative medicine hasn't changed much. The sad truth is that the same things in the book are still true today: attacks on vitamin therapy, propaganda by medical establishment, science orthodoxy, and the public being denied access to alternative therapies.
A combination of that fustration leads to fasination with the way an alternative way can be dismissed or attacked. Well, recent research has shown that perhaps no amount of evidence can convince people.
But just to think people were being helped and even cured by the use of vitamin therapy forty years ago. Niacin (vitamin B) was being used to treat mental illness while vitamin C was treating infections (sometimes better than antibiotics). And the critics launched all the usual attacks of "quackery" due to their belief that one can obtain all needed nutrients from food. They are ignorant of the basis of orthomolecular nutrition that everyone has a unique biochemical need for higher or lower amounts of certain nutrients. A chronic defiency of a certian nutrient CAN lead to health problems in individuals who need higher amounts of a nutrient. But then again the gatekeepers don't actually know anything about orthomolecular medicine and only want to debunk it.