Andrew Saul: Wall Street Journal on Vitamins Rebuttal Letter

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Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:26:23 +0200

" Andrew W. Saul " <drsaul

" Sepp Hasslberger " <sepp

Re: Wall Street Journal on Vitamins Rebuttal Letter

 

 

 

 

Dear Andrew,

 

thank you for the copy of your response to the Wall Street Journal

editors.

 

I have not re-published their article, so as not to give them further

publicity, but I keep your response to use when needed, and I am

forwarding copy of this to some people I think may be interested...

 

Kind regards

Sepp

 

 

 

> Dear Sepp,

 

>

 

> I today sent this letter (below the +++ ) to five different

editorial offices at the Wall Street Journal.

 

>

 

> Best wishes,

> A. Saul

 

>

 

> (For information about my new book, " FIRE YOUR DOCTOR! " , please look

at http://www.doctoryourself.com/fyd.html .)

 

>

 

> +++

 

>

 

> To the Editors:

 

>

 

> A recent Wall Street Journal article (March 20, 2006) trashes

vitamins. Financial newspapers are not medical journals. I am

reasonably confident that the founders of the Wall Street Journal did

not set out to rule on nutritional matters. Neither do we expect NEJM

or JAMA or Lancet to give investment advice (although they have been

shown sufficiently interdependent with the pharmaceutical industry to

do so).

 

>

 

> There are those, especially in the

pharmaceutical-advertising-supported media, who would like the public

to think that vitamins have no therapeutic value. In fact, they'd like

it to think that nutritional supplements are downright dangerous.

Advertiser money buys editorial favor. Scare stories sell papers.

 

>

 

> If the Wall Street Journal were to analyze stocks with the

convenient selectivity with which they choose to report on vitamins,

either they'd have the SEC on their tail or we'd be in the midst of

another stock market crash. Almost all vitamin research is positive.

If you search the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE index for

" vitamin, " you will find over 174,000 papers. A Medline search for

" vitamin therapy " yields 53,372 citations; " vitamin therapeutics "

yields 16,191. A search for " vitamin contraindications " gets 165

responses. Vitamins are well studied, safe and effective.

 

>

>

 

> My own personal search of the medical literature has failed to find

even one death proven to be caused by the public's use of vitamin

supplementation. ( http://www.doctoryourself.com/testimony.htm ) If

you find to the contrary, please send it on to me. Remember, please,

that I am looking specifically for proven instances, not hearsay. Not

allegations, but forensic evidence.

 

>

 

> May I suggest that you might consider what I say when people talk to

me about all this:

 

>

 

> " Show us all these people – any people – that have died from

vitamins. Where are the bodies? Now explain this: the Journal of the

American Medical Association reports that at least 106,000 Americans

are killed by pharmaceutical drugs, properly prescribed and taken as

directed, every single year. " (Journal of the American Medical

Association, 1994, 272:23, p 1851. Also: JAMA. 2000 Jul 5;284(1):95-7.)

 

>

 

> In the end, you have to decide for yourself whether to trust Dr.

Linus Pauling or Mr. Dow Jones. And, if it will help keep things in

perspective, why not bear in mind what Ward Cleaver told his son,

Beaver: " A lot of people go through life trying to prove that the

things that are good for them are wrong. "

 

>

 

> And at least some of those people likely work at the Wall Street

Journal.

 

>

 

> Sincerely yours,

 

>

 

> Andrew W. Saul

 

> Assistant Editor,

 

> The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

 

>

 

> (end)

 

>

 

>

 

 

 

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