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<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1. Where’s the
beef?</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> How
much of the original study is quoted in the media? Are you just getting
factoids, or are data provided? Has the journalist writing about the
subject actually read the original paper? </span><span
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<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2. What exactly was
studied, and how? </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Was
it an IN VITRO (test-tube) study or an IN VIVO (animal) study? Was there a
CLINICAL STUDY on people, or is its application to real life a matter of
conjecture?</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3. Follow the
Money. </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Who
paid for the study? Cash from food processors, pharmaceutical giants, and
other deep pockets decides what gets studied, and how. It is very
difficult, if not impossible, for researchers to present findings that
embarrass their financial backers. Published research will often indicate
sources of funding, possibly at the end of the paper in an acknowledgements
paragraph. If not, correspondence addresses of principle authors are
invariably provided. Write and ask.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>4. Check the dosages.</span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Any vitamin C study using
less than 2,000 mg a day is a waste of time. Any vitamin E study employing
less than 400 International Units (I.U.) is a waste of time. Any study using
less than 1,000 mg niacin a day is a waste of time. All low-dose studies are
set up to fail. Low doses of vitamins do not cure major diseases. Large
doses cure diseases.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>5. Check the form of
supplement used.</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
Was the vitamin used in the study natural or synthetic? Any carotene
study using the synthetic form of beta-carotene only is a waste of time. Any
vitamin E study using the synthetic DL-alpha form (instead of far more
effective natural mixed tocopherols) is a waste of time.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>6. Use the Pauling
Principle: read the entire study </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>and interpret the data for yourself. Do not rely on
the summary and/or conclusions of the study authors. As Linus Pauling
pointed out repeatedly, many researchers miss, or dismiss, the statistical
significance of their own work. Such behavior may be human error, or it
may be politically motivated. Beware of editorializing.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>7. Beware of
Pauling-bashers. </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>If a media article is critical about twice Nobel prize-winning Linus
Pauling, you can be confident it has been spin-doctored.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>8. Watch for these
throw-away slams against supplements:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>“You get all the
vitamins you need form your daily diet.”</span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'> <br>
”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Vitamins are
dangerous if you take too many of them.”</span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'> <br>
”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Excess
vitamins are just wasted by your body.”</span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'> <br>
”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>More research
is needed before supplements can be recommended.”</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There is no
scientific support for large vitamin doses.”</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>9. Watch for
pontifical public recommendations at the end of the article</span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> such as: </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"Vitamins can do
some good things, but can do some bad things as well."</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>You are better
off not popping vitamin pills.”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Just eat a
balanced diet.”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If you take
vitamins, take no more than the US RDA.”</span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'> <br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>10. Use the media
backwards. </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
more headlines about a particular study, the more politically charged the
subject and the less likely that the reporting, or the original study, is
positive towards vitamins. Negative news sells newspapers, and
magazines, and gets lots of viewers. Positive <b><i>drug </i></b>studies
do get headlines, of course. Positive vitamin studies do not. Is
this a conspiracy? You mean with shady people all sitting around a shaded
table in a darkened back room? Of course not. It is nevertheless an enormous
public health problem with enormous consequences. Consider what might be
called <i>Saul’s Law of the Media</i>: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>“Press and television coverage of a vitamin study is inversely
proportionate to the study’s clinical usefulness.” </b>In other
words, the more media hoopla, the worse the research. Truly valuable research
does not scare people; it helps people get well. There are over 3,000
scientific references at Doctor Yourself.com for people who share in this
goal.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
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