Anti-vitamin hoax in media linked to Big Pharma

[SecularMotion]

(NaturalNews) -- Canada's CTV, TIME, USA Today, MSNBC, NPR, the LA Times and numerous other mainstream media outlets have all been running a hoax. Through various misleading headlines, they're all claiming that vitamins might kill you. Here are some of the headlines:

Study links vitamins to higher death rates in women - CTV

Study: Vitamins may increase death risk in older women - USA Today

We've Been Wasting a Ton of Money on Vitamins and Dietary Supplements - TIME

Some common vitamin supplements could increase death risk - MSNBC

Dietary supplements risky for older women, study finds - LA Times

Supplements Look Risky In Study Of Older Women - NPR

Vitamins do more harm than good, new suggest says - News.com.au

Women Who Take Vitamin Supplements May Have Increased Death Risk - Huffington Post

There are literally hundreds of headlines from mainstream news sources that essentially say the same thing.

There's only one problem with all this: The whole thing is a HOAX. NaturalNews stepped forward to expose this hoax using data from the published study itself.

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/health/2011/10/19/1263.html

[snagglepuss]

1. Also on that site: aliens from outer space control life on Earth. So says

Dr Salla.

What a bogus site. BigPharma is problem but so is BigVitamin. Both out to hoodwink vunerable consumers.

[SecularMotion]

2. You don't like the website?

Pick another -

http://www.google.com/search?q=anti-vitamin+hoax

They all show how the anti-supplement study is junk science.

[snagglepuss]

All questionable sites. BigVitamin is a corporate money making business just

like BigPharma. Why are you trying to spin it as something it's not?

[SecularMotion]

4. What are you talking about?

The OP is about Big Pharma using junk science to smear the use of vitamins.

If you support the claims of the anti-supplement study, please explain why. Many sources clearly show that the study and results are flawed.

[HuckleB]

11. The only thing that's flawed are some typical, overly dramatic MSM headlines.

Cut the crap.

[snagglepuss]

3. dup. self delete

[Eddie Haskell]

5. The questionable news sources are MSM's.

Don't eat anything with a label, don't watch anything with a sponsor, don't read anything from a syndicate. Turn off, tune out, and drop in.

[HuckleB]

6. REALITY!

Science has shown that most people don't need supplements. So don't waste your money.

You're pushing a red herring pushed by BIG SUPPLEMENT!

Why would anyone do that?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x110688

BTW, this is just how mainstream media reports science. It's this way with every single study. In other words, this OP is FOS.

Further, naturalnews has less credibility than MSM.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/NaturalNews

Whoops!

[SecularMotion]

9. Your claim that science supports your propaganda is laughable.

You're ignoring the FACTS that show the anti-supplement study is flawed and an obvious attempt to smear the use of vitamins.

You attack the website because the facts in the article destroy your propaganda.

[HuckleB]

10. In other words, the real world is not your thing.

You're ignoring the consensus of the science in order to push BS from an industry that doesn't offer much value to most people.

That's quite sad, to say the least.

Pay attention. You're being conned.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x111232

[SidDithers]

7. naturalnews. LOL...

what a joke of a website.

Sid

[SecularMotion]

8. The joke is the anti-supplement study

“In the study, all of the relative risks were so low as to be statistically insignificant, and none was backed up by any medical investigation or biological plausibility study. No analysis was done on what combinations of vitamins and minerals were actually consumed, and no analysis of the cause of death was done beyond grouping for ‘cancer,’ ‘cardiovascular disease,’ or ‘other’ — there was certainly no causative analysis done. The interactions of potential compounding risk factors is always tremendously complex—and was ignored in this so-called study.”

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october152011/vitamin-study-ag.php