That's my general understanding as well. Linus Pauling of the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University coined the word orthomolecular in the late 1960s ..... orthomolecular.org ...... and then some study at the Mayo clinic was used to disparage his finding of vitamin c 's usefulness for cancers ..... Hugh Riordan I believe picked up from there and then that became the Riordan clinic.