Magic Vitamins:

 The Wonders of Now You See It, Now You Don't Study Data

 We don't eat enough food and vegetables and we need to take vitamins to stay healthy, right? If we take vitamins it
 shorten the time we have colds, right? They have powerful antioxidant properties that prevent cancer and heart disease, right?
 Actually, none of these things are true. A previous review of the published literature stated that elderly healthy
 individuals who took a multivitamin a day had 17 fewer days of cold per year. However the authors later corrected their paper
 based on a retraction by the journal of one of the studies. It turns out that three of the papers were written by Ranjit Chandra, M.D.,
 (pictured at left) a doctor at the University of Newfoundland in Canada. The data from all of the studies apparently had been
 fabricated, and a paper published in Dr. Chandra's journal Nutrition Research by a mysterious "Dr. A.L. Jain" could not be traced
 to any living human being. When these studies were removed the effects of vitamins on colds was found to be zero.
 Vitamin A and beta carotene have also been shown to cause osteoporosis and cancer. You don't need extra vitamins; the
 normal diet has plenty. In fact the Danish Government has banned Kellogg's cereals because they are concerned about the
 effects are of all those excessive< a href=http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~jdbremn/publications.html">vitamins.