THE "USELESS VITAMINS" SYNDROME

By Nicholas Regush

This is getting very boring. Another study reporting how daily doses of vitamins do nothing to prevent diseases.

This time, it’s a study in The Lancet concluding that Vitamin E, Vitamin C and Beta-Carotene offer no benefit to those at high risk for heart disease, cancer and other illnesses.

Ho hum. One of the researchers, Rory Collins, actually concluded that vitamins are a "waste of time." A Useless action. This bright light knows the truth. So let him strut his stuff and have his cheap cigar.

That’s what you do when there is competing research suggesting that vitamins can provide some benefit. Grin and bear it.

This week’s Scream goes to Collins and his ilk who badly need counselling, so that they can understand that science is a process and that nothing should be viewed as definitive. Nothing.

Unfortunately, many scientists never had the proper schooling to understand the tenuous nature of their findings.

You can read a silly news story about this big-time study with its big-time conclusions.