> Well, what more did the industry do than destroy the bill?
I don't want to talk about a monolithic "The Industry". But there's no doubt that some companies and people involved in mega-dosing or in vitamin supplements are evil. I don't mean wishy-washy "making lots of money and being a bit cynical" kind of evil, I mean actually evil.
Mathias Rath has probably caused the death and infection of very many people in South Africa because of his AIDS denialism and promotion of vitamins as a cure for AIDS. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Rath)
Patrick Holford has written books with titles like "Food is better medicine than drugs: your prescription for drug free health" - people are turning away from conventional medicine and using multivitamins. He's not as scummy as Rath, but he's pretty scummy. Selling vitamins as a cancer-cure to desperate people when there's no evidence that it works is unpleasant.
I don't want to talk about a monolithic "The Industry". But there's no doubt that some companies and people involved in mega-dosing or in vitamin supplements are evil. I don't mean wishy-washy "making lots of money and being a bit cynical" kind of evil, I mean actually evil.
Mathias Rath has probably caused the death and infection of very many people in South Africa because of his AIDS denialism and promotion of vitamins as a cure for AIDS. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Rath)
(http://www.irinnews.org/report/38577/south-africa-controvers...)
(http://www.irinnews.org/report/78739/south-africa-tac-prevai...)
Remember that this was during mid to late 2000s when HIV / AIDS was a significant killer in South Africa, infecting nearly a third of the population (http://www.avert.org/south-africa-hiv-aids-statistics.htm)
Patrick Holford has written books with titles like "Food is better medicine than drugs: your prescription for drug free health" - people are turning away from conventional medicine and using multivitamins. He's not as scummy as Rath, but he's pretty scummy. Selling vitamins as a cancer-cure to desperate people when there's no evidence that it works is unpleasant.