My take is two-fold:
As he points, Vitamin D is not your usual vitamin. It is not some simple substance that the body breaks down and uses to build the myriad of substances it needs. Rather Vitamin D is a secosteroid (like a steroid but with a broken ring). It directly interacts in complex ways with many reactions within the body.
The body makes its own Vitamin D, and as with any such non-essential nutrient of complex affect, one always has to ask whether supplementing it throws more body processes out of whack than it improves.
Any article that makes taking Vitamins useless, or even better harmful, gets the full support of Big Pharma, who can push popularizations of such articles on the willing (greedy and leftist) main stream media with great affect.
They have already mortally wounded the Vitamin industry in parts of Europe, and are trying to do so world wide, by some treaty we have signed that I don't recall the name of offhand.
In several ways, the paper raises doubts about Vitamin D supplements in our food supply.
It's another attack on Vitamins.
There's one MAJOR flaw in this argument---"the body makes its own Vitamin D" AS LONG AS YOU GET SUFFICIENT SUNLIGHT. The problem is, most people do NOT get sufficient sunlight for the body to do the synthesis.
If I understand correctly, this research is solely for the purpose of helping people with varied diagnoses that have no effective treatment a chance to get better.
I have second hand experience with the treatment plan as one of my family had serious medical issues. This member had lost the ability to maintain balance, read, do math, lost years of functioning. Last November, a wheelchair or walker was required all day. There was not a doctor or specialist that was able or willing to offer any treatment plan or hope, and trust me, we saw many.
Stumbled on the MarshallProtocol website, did the research, it made sense. Talked to folks on the plan, and sure enough, they are really getting better.
Finally found a doctor willing to prescribe the very safe and cost effective medications. Now six months into the treatment plan—
Now, this person is able to roller blade backwards, read at grade level, and is well on the way to getting a functioning immune system. Intense pain is relieved. The doctor is dumbfounded at the progress.
The major problem with this protocol is the established medical community, who were not taught this by their revered professors at their prestigious universities. Therefore, the science behind it cannot be true.
A recent example: not too many years ago, every elite medical school and teaching college taught every student that there were no bacterium that could survive the toxic acids in our stomachs. Too bad that they never taught that to the h. pylori giving everyone ulcers. It took years for that knowledge to trickle down. But now it is common practice to prescribe antiobiotics for ulcerated stomachs. A few short years ago, it was considered malpractice....
In short, these simple and safe medications have saved one member of my family and has greatly improved the quality of life for the rest of us because we no longer have to provide 24/7 care.
The concern and care from strangers who are fellow sufferers has been extraordinary.
When they get enough data, they will tell YOU what you can have or not have. You're gonna march to the drummer whether you like it or not...H1N1 is the first display of their "power"....