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HuckleB

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18. IOW, you don't know how to do a legitimate risk-benefit analysis.

Tue Nov 19, 2013, 09:06 PM

Nov 2013

That's exactly what you're posts have shown, so you don't have to spell it out. WebMD and Mayo have been called out for the choice to go with anecdote over science, and popularity over things that actually offer benefits. Pushing logical fallacy after logical fallacy is not going to help. Of course, if you're defending one of the biggest scams in history, then nothing is going to help until you choose to wake up.

Why is the industry afraid of consumers having information that would actually help the consumer? Oh, that's right.

Once again, the dietary supplement industry is fighting efforts to give consumers more information about the safety and effectiveness of dietary supplements.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/big-supp-resists-giving-consumers-safety-and-effectiveness-information/

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The dismal news about supplements. Why bother? [View all] Addison Nov 2013 OP

And here my doctor has recommended I take supplements like D3 and such........ djean111 Nov 2013 #1

True . . . Addison Nov 2013 #2

WebMD and the Mayo Clinic websites actually do cover lots of supplements, dosage, side effects, djean111 Nov 2013 #4

Study after study shows no guaranties that they contain what they claim. HuckleB Nov 2013 #10

"stop thinking that everything else is bad." djean111 Nov 2013 #12

IOW, you don't know how to do a legitimate risk-benefit analysis. HuckleB Nov 2013 #18

And just how much of that 'evidence' is produced at the behest of Big Pharma IrishAyes Nov 2013 #15

And your defense of a scam industry is to offer conspiracy theory BS. HuckleB Nov 2013 #19

What I'm relying on is thousands of years of proven efficacy. Not the dubious claims of IrishAyes Nov 2013 #20

The fallacy of the ancients. HuckleB Nov 2013 #22

Remember too that a lot of this negative press could be funded by Big Pharma IrishAyes Nov 2013 #14

Bingo. djean111 Nov 2013 #17

This is just the worst kind of Internet BS. HuckleB Nov 2013 #27

You might be glad to know that hemp seeds offer a higher concentration of D3 than most other IrishAyes Nov 2013 #25

vitamins are a somewhat different case... mike_c Nov 2013 #29

Dealing with the very best and most trustworthy companies can help, such as IrishAyes Nov 2013 #3

If you want nutrition, eat a balanced diet. longship Nov 2013 #5

People unable to buy or grow, prepare, and eat whole foods for whatever reason really do IrishAyes Nov 2013 #6

Even in the US, most people do not need supplementation. HuckleB Nov 2013 #11

Your ignorance of my knowledge does not make me bizarre in the least. IrishAyes Nov 2013 #16

You think putting words in the mouths of others shows knowledge? HuckleB Nov 2013 #21

In whose mouth did I put which words, pray tell? IrishAyes Nov 2013 #24

You put words in my mouth. HuckleB Nov 2013 #26

I use Swanson as well, and when these reports about fake supplements came Nay Nov 2013 #7

Definitely hard, more or less at different times and situations. IrishAyes Nov 2013 #8

I love the idea about comfrey -- may I ask how much you dose yourself with? Nay Nov 2013 #9

Contrary to what you'll hear some so-called experts say, many herbals from trustworthy IrishAyes Nov 2013 #13

Diet Supplements or Nutritional Supplements: A Ruse by Any Other Name is Still a Ruse HuckleB Nov 2013 #23

The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements HuckleB Nov 2013 #28

Vitamins And Mortality HuckleB Nov 2013 #30

I'll keep taking my VitD and COq10. 840high Nov 2013 #31

Vitamin D won't hurt, especially if it's 1000 iu or less. HuckleB Nov 2013 #32

I do not understand why so many are convinced that they need to take vitamins. SheilaT Nov 2013 #33