Scientists Continue To Use Junk Science
To Negate The Effectiveness Of Vitamins
The latest attack on vitamins A, C, E, selenium
and beta-carotene comes from the Cochrane Library, a widely-read
source of information on conventional health matters. In the paper
published April 15th, these antioxidants were linked with a higher
risk of mortality, and now serious-sounding scientists have warned
consumers away from taking vitamins altogether. But with all the
benefits of antioxidants already well known to the well-informed,
how did the Cochrane Library arrive at such a conclusion? It's
easy: The researchers considered 452 studies on these vitamins,
and they threw out the 405 studies where nobody died! That left
just 47 studies where subjects died from various causes (one study
was conducted on terminal heart patients, for example). From this
hand-picked selection of studies, these researchers concluded
that antioxidants
increase mortality.
The magnitude of scientific fraud taking place here is very apparent.
These scientists claimed to be studying the effects of vitamins
on mortality, right? They were conducting a meta-analysis based
on reviewing established studies. But instead of conducting an
honest review of all the studies, they arbitrarily decided to
eliminate all studies in which vitamins prevented mortality
and kept people alive! They did this by "excluding all studies
in which no participants died." What was left to review? Only
the studies in which people died from various causes.
This sort of bass-ackward science would earn any teenager an "F"
in high school science class. But apparently it's good enough
for the Cochrane Library, not to mention all the mainstream press
outlets that are now repeating these silly conclusions as scientific
fact.
Much "Scientific" Research Is Pure Fiction
As you can see from this particular junk science study on antioxidants,
the credibility of much of what happens under the guise of "science"
is now so awful that one wonders how many pharmaceuticals the
researchers are on. These people literally have to be on drugs
to come up with such poorly-designed studies (and to have the
gumption to announce their results with a straight face, too!).
A recent survey in Nature found that 20 percent of science
academics use mind-altering drugs for non-medical reasons to boost
academic performance. That's one out of five researchers engaged
in illegal drug use! This is a group that takes more mind-altering
drugs than a Southern California hippy parade. And then they turn
around and come up with "scientific" studies that lack such credibility,
even an intelligent child could see right through them.
Actually, it's worse. Because what we're seeing in this antioxidant
study is not merely bad science, but deceptive science.
Bad science is created by bumbling idiots mucking around with
clinical trial data, but deceptive science is created by
people who have an agenda; people who have decided what outcome
they wish to create even before the study begins. And that's
not real science, folks: That's just subterfuge with an agenda.
Agenda-driven scientific-sounding trickery has now replaced real
science in much the same way that politicians' pronouncements
of "the economy is great!" have replaced any real talk about the
national debt. The truth is no longer relevant, it seems. What
matters is whatever they can pull off and get the public to believe.
The illusion of science is now being routinely used to push a
particular anti-vitamin agenda. And guess who's behind that agenda?
Big Pharma, of course. There's no better way to trap consumers
in a system of lifelong pharmaceutical treatment than to convince
them that vitamins are not merely worthless, but perhaps even
dangerous!
The unstated conclusion behind all this, by the way, is that "Drugs
are therefore safe." If vitamins are dangerous, drugs must be
the safe way to treat disease, right?
Drugs are safe, vitamins are dangerous, sunlight will kill you,
water has no health benefits, fresh spinach is dangerous...these
are the pronouncements of a system of medical idiocy that has
gone so far beyond the limits of reason, they've actually fallen
off the edge of their own Flat Earth. Next, they'll be telling
us that breaking a mirror brings you seven years of bad luck,
or that if you keep a lucky rabbit's foot in your pocket, pharmaceuticals
will work better.
Because let's face it: When facts are no longer relevant, modern
"science" becomes nothing more than superstition.
Don't believe what you read in the science journals, folks. At
least not without engaging your own brain and thinking for a moment
about who's behind the study and what they're trying to accomplish.
It's quite clear that on this particular study, the aim is to
scare consumers away from taking vitamins. Now ask yourself: Who
would that benefit? The answer is rather obvious.
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