health ranger

It’s all very well Mike Adams (The Health Ranger) getting up in arms about conspiracies and supposed scientific fraud. I admire his enthusiasm and there is certainly plenty of the things he gets angry about going on in the world. But science is nowhere near as cut and dried as untrained people think. Mike is not a doctor and has never been in a clinical situation or had to figure out fact from fiction in a patient setting. Not all doctors and scientists who come up with odd answers are crooks, Mike! As an example, let’s take a published study that investigates the taking of vitamins: it follows a bunch of people who take supplements and concludes that vitamins actually shorten your life. On average, the supplement takers died sooner… That’s obviously a fraudulent study; we know that vitamins help you live longer, right? Well, no! That’s not necessarily true.

It’s all very well Mike Adams (The Health Ranger) getting up in arms about conspiracies and supposed scientific fraud. I admire his enthusiasm and there is certainly plenty of the things he gets angry about going on in the world. But science is nowhere near as cut and dried as untrained people think. Mike is not a doctor and has never been in a clinical situation or had to figure out fact from fiction in a patient setting. Not all doctors and scientists who come up with odd answers are crooks, Mike! As an example, let’s take a published study that investigates the taking of vitamins: it follows a bunch of people who take supplements and concludes that vitamins actually shorten your life. On average, the supplement takers died sooner… That’s obviously a fraudulent study; we know that vitamins help you live longer, right? Well, no! That’s not necessarily true.