Where are all the corpses stacked???
Vioxx corpses alone outnumber anything in the supplement world.
I was around for the Vioxx debacle. If I remember correctly, the increased cardiovascular risk was found only in populations with either established CVD or risk factors placing them at high risk of CVD. In that group a significant number would have had an event with or without Vioxx. Plaintiff lawyers will attribute every CVD event to Vioxx and the defense lawyers will attribute every case to natural propensity. The real number is unknown and probably unknowable.
There are now multiple studies linking various vitamin supplements to various cancers. Using the logic of a plaintiff lawyer and the facts that almost every person in America has taken a vitamin supplement at some point in their life and that about 1/3 of Americans will get cancer, that there are 10s of millions of vitamin victims.
Biologically active chemicals are biologically active chemicals whether you get it at the pharmacy or GNC.
On a side note, when I developed cancer, I was advised to stop several supplements linked with decreased cancer survival.
The original VIOXX estimated deaths were about 50k. This has recently upgraded to about 500k deaths. IIOXX was fined but nobody went to jail
Of course, the article conveniently forgets this: very often a new drug from big pharma is developed based on naturally occurring botanicals. Once the drug (overpriced) is introduced, big pharma does all it can to discredit the natural plant material that pharma attempts to mimic through chemistry.