Great political fodder, but much ado about nothing.

Vitamins and food supplements.

Bill "hit letter" Goichberg has too much time on his hands, and the blood of
plenty of competitors that he used governance of the USCF to sweep away.

Tom Klem
"End of Story"
---John Blackstone, National Master

"Angelo DePalma" wrote in message
...

Vince, you hit on precisely my point. Placebo controlled clinical trials
are
the gold standard for approving medicinal substances. No-one should accept
any less from "natural" treatments. Anything less has a much higher chance
to expose patients or consumers to unacceptable risks.



"Vince Hart" wrote

Perhaps that should be true, but I do not think it is. There are many
vitamins, herbs and dietary supplements that are purchased for supposed
health benefits that have not been established in clinical trials.

I agree that this has become standard practice before the DSHEA
legislation
I alluded to earlier. That doesn't make it right. False, misleading, or
fradulent medical claims exploit people at their weakest. If you want a
portable music player and purchase an IRiver instead of an IPod, the worst
that happens is you give the damned thing to your neice. If you suffer
from
a medical ailment and seek help in snake oil you may die as a result. At
the
very least you have wasted your money, hope, and opportunity.

Probably. However, if there were a certain city in Russia that
produced a disproportionate number of grandmasters and it so happened
that this city consumed an inordinate quantity of Fungo's Potato Chips,
I think this could probably be used to sell the product. I think many
products are sold that way without clinical trials, e.g., some island
that consumes a diet high in mollusk oil has a low rate of heart
disease so mollusk oil is promoted as potentially helping the heart.