We live in a world where hysteria sells, where the outrageous, the over-inflated, and the scary -- no matter how untrue they might be -- are embraced. For years I've written about how the mainstream media will take a flawed study on antioxidants, supplements, or some alternative health protocol such as detoxing and trumpet it with hyperbolic headlines such as:
- The antioxidant myth: a medical fairy tale1
- We’ve Been Wasting a Ton of Money on Vitamins and Dietary Supplements2
- Colon Cleansing Ineffective and Unsafe, Say Researchers
But make no mistake, it's not all one-sided. Voices from the alternative health community have been equally outrageous. Remember back in 2009 when the swine flu first hit and the internet reverberated with claims from the alternative health community that this new strain of flu had been deliberately created and unleashed by malevolent governments to "depopulate" the world -- only to do a complete 180 when dire pandemic predictions failed to materialize (as I predicted) and subsequently claim that the ineffectiveness of the swine flu was deliberate and "now" represented a government conspiracy to trick the public into spending billions of dollars for unnecessary, ineffective, and dangerous vaccines. Remember? >
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