Lately, even Scientific American even published letters to the editor protesting their insistence on making science political."
The socialists of the MSM pushing the nanny state politicize everything.
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Vitamin E does not work without taking the cofactor Selenium - flawed study
Vitamin E does not work without taking the cofactor Selenium - flawed study
I heard that scientists recently claim that taking 2 tablets of Vitamin E (400 mg) will improve hearing or even prevent hearing loss.
This is a flawed study. :)
The medical profession has a habit of flip flopping. Today something is bad, tomorrow is good, then next day bad again. When my doctor tells me to stop taking any of my supplements, I ask him which drug companies are against vitamins.
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I told Yassar that, but he didn't listen.
That is a very interesting comment.
I was an enthusiastic reader of Scientific American for many many years. I just loved Mathematical Recreation (or something like that.) And then they published an article on HIV and AIDS that was so politicized and unscientific that I just could not in good faith continue to read the magazine. Any publication, but particularly a supposedly scientific one, that sacrifices the truth for a political agenda is more than useless. It is dangerous.
That was the last article I ever read in "Scientific" "American". But I still take Vitamin E.
DUUHHH!
common sense tells me that by far most of these viamin-E'ers are seasoned citizens.
One 39 per 10,000 is probably statistically insignificant. And two, people taking vitamin E may be taking it due to having health problems. That is people taking aspirin may die more than people who don't, but not because of the aspirin, but because they are having pain and are probably more prone to die anyway.
Personally, I never took anything until I turned 40. Then I found vitamin e and other stuff helped me out. Guess what, I'm probably more likely to die now that I'm taking vitamin e than before, but not because of the vitamin, because i'm older.
This is such bad science. Reviewing death rates with out doing any clinical studies is worthless. This is bad as saying we are having global warming because the earth has warmed 1 degree in 100 years. Therefore man burning fossil fuel caused global warming. Thats bad science, we are still in the zone after the end of the last ice age, of course we have global warming. Just because liberals hate cars and they produce CO2 does not explain the ice ages cycles or prove it caused the temperature increase.
Let me give you another one, reviewing SAT scores of poor black kids from segregated schools all tested less than white kids, therefor some claimed all blacks were dumber than whites, no thats bad science also.
I eat 40 pounds of raw green cabbage a day. Do you think it will make me die early if I continue doing this, or should I fry it with bacon and onions?
Please Help Me!
Gritty
These 39 choked on the 1000 IU capsules.;~)
Let's forget for a moment that "In 2003, sales of the vitamin totaled $710 million and it accounted for 11 percent of all vitamin sales, behind multivitamins , B vitamins and vitamin C", and that the FDA, the Pharmaceutical industry, the AMA and other associated groups would like to have that $710 million in their pockets and the only way to do that is to control all vitamins and supplements.
Let's also forget that this is the same group that tries to criminalize and outlaw beneficial and innocuous remedies and things like colloidal silver or ozonated water, because the big Pharma can't make any money off of those and similar natural remedies.
Let's also set aside the fact that Dr. Miller III didn't actually do any research, he just compiled and analyzed (although not necessarily correctly) the pooled "results from 19 clinical trials involving 135,967 participants".
Let's also totally disregard the view of several statisticians who claim that "that it is notoriously difficult to pool data from disparate studies with different populations and weak results". And remember, Dr. Miller admits that "the evidence of harm was weak, so he and his colleagues decided to pool data from 19 studies to get more definitive answers". Apparently, if your own study doesn't give you the results to back up your pre-determined theory, then you selectively gather up a bunch of other studies and see if you can find some ragged, scant evidence for your theory.
I can remember 40 years ago when Prevention magazine and author Gary Null put forth their ideas that good nutrition could prevent cancer and they were vilified and torn apart by the AMA and associated medical/pharmaceutical groups. How could they foist this travesty on the unwary public?? But what exactly does the medical profession advise today? Good nutrition can help prevent cancer, heart disease, etc., etc. But only under a Dr's supervision, of course.
You can surely bet that the good Dr. Miller probably didn't include any research from countries like Russia, Cuba (?!!), Norway, Sweden, China, etc. in his "pooling". Because those countries don't have the AMA/FDA/Big Pharma strangling their research, and they have done some extraordinary stuff on natural substances, supplements and remedies that the good ol' FDA won't even allow to be considered here, but that are being used outside the US - by poorer populations that can't afford "FDA approved" cut and burn solutions- to help people obtain and keep good health - instead of the "dis-ease" that the AMA is sworn to perpetuate.
Ya gotta remember, disease is big business. The "medical/pharmaceutical industry" would be put outa business if the US population got healthy. It isn't in the financial interests of the AMA/FDA/Big Pharma to eliminate disease, only to perpetuate it, and increase it. Why do you think you see those billion dollar ad campaigns on teevee about "ask your doctor if [drug name] can help you"? Finding some obscure symptom and labelling as a disease gives the AMA/FDA total control over it and anything used to "cure" it.
Think about it.
Patients Taking Mix Scored Better On Mental Exams, According To Report
Oct. 28, 2003 - A vitamin cocktail containing Vitamin E and the prescription drug Aricept is showing promise as a therapy to help slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
A three-year study shows that combining the prescription drug Aricept with vitamin E can help slow the progression of the disease, according to Alzheimer's researcher Dr. David Beversdorf.
"What we found was that the decline at years 1, 2 and 3 compared to the baseline was significantly less for our group," said Beversdorf.
Patients treated with the prescription combination scored better on mental exams, showing less mental decline than the group that did not get the cocktail, according to the study. Patients were given a minimum of 670 mg of vitamin E combined with a normal dosage of Aricept. Although the study was promising, researchers still have many questions to answer before they know if the combination will benefit every patient.
The research appears in the journal Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders. The research was funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Pfizer/Eisai, manufacturers of Aricept, and the National Institutes of Health.
In the United States, about 4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, according to the Alzheimer's Association. As the baby boom generation ages, the estimated Alzheimer prevalence is 11.3 million to 16 million by the year 2050.
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Anything the NY Times publishes, I believe the opposite. They ripped the movie "Polar Express" to shreds and I decided to go see it because of their review. It was one of the best movies I have seen.