He joined the Royal Canadian Navy on July 15, 1941 and served in the Pacific and North Atlantic during World War II, including a stint on HMCS Ontario.
He criticized the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation's retirement scheme in 1979, arguing that senior staff members were receiving "immoral" increases via dubious means.
[11] In 1995, Scott assisted a Sudbury woman in her successful battle to have chronic fatigue syndrome officially recognized as a debilitating disease.
The Scotts wrote a follow-up book called The Brucellosis Triangle in 1997, hypothesizing a link between CFS and brucella bacteria.
[5] Scott frequently argued that CFS and related conditions should be recognized as legitimate illnesses, and rejected the view that they are "learned behaviour designed to help the patient avoid facing life".
[18] In a 2001 interview with The Sudbury Star, Scott said that he was able to bring forward unconventional medical theories because he was self-taught, and "not predisposed to think in a way that someone taught me to think".
Scott was still listed as president of the Ontario Options Party in December 2000, when he wrote a letter opposing the amalgamation of Greater Sudbury.
[5][25] He helped organize Health Awareness Week in 2000, to support Canada's health-care system and educate at-risk groups about disease concerns.
[2] Shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, he wrote a letter to The Sudbury Star criticizing the paper for running an editorial cartoon that he described as "sick, prejudiced, racist [and] unfeeling".