Antioxidants and Cancer - Researchers Admit Mistake
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It was news when it was first revealed three years ago - and it was news again last week: antioxidant vitamins can speed up the development of cancer. But the researcher who first published the study has now admitted that she got it wrong.
The original study � which made headlines around the world � found that cancer patients who took either vitamin A (beta-carotene) or E (alpha tocopherol) supplements were 40 per cent more likely to suffer a recurrence of their cancer than those who didn�t take any supplements.
Ever since, nutritionists and alternative therapists have been on the back foot, and have tried to defend the antioxidants. But their task was made even tougher last week when the prestigious Cochrane Collaborative released a meta-analysis that suggested that antioxidants may even shorten our life.
But the researchers, led by Isabelle Bairati from the Quebec Research Centre, who published the 2005 study, have re-analysed their original data, and have discovered they got it wrong. The only people in the study who were seeing their cancer return were smokers who refused to kick the habit while they were receiving radiation therapy or chemotherapy.
Strangely, not a single newspaper has run with the story.
(Source: International Journal of Cancer, 2008; 122: 1679-83).
Newspapers get recycled, then presumably some of the paper is used to wrap / make tobacco products. So if smokers are solely to blame for those results, and it's public news, more people might quit smoking, so demand by Tobacco manufacturers, for paper sourced from recycled newspapers goes down.
Newspaper folks lose out, and their little bosom buddies act with the Bacco giants is exposed.
Well as conspiracy theories go, it's not great, but then most conspiracy theories aren't that hot anyways.
But the researchers, led by Isabelle Bairati from the Quebec Research Centre, who published the 2005 study, have re-analysed their original data, and have discovered they got it wrong. The only people in the study who were seeing their cancer return were smokers who refused to kick the habit while they were receiving radiation therapy or chemotherapy.
Strangely, not a single newspaper has run with the story.
(Source: International Journal of Cancer, 2008; 122: 1679-83).
Makes you wonder what else is being controlled into the public domain. Definitely what isn't being released could potentially have big, and no doubt financial consequences, for certain businesses / organisations.
Probably a lot of unreleased Scientific information will only truly be exposed by former employees, whistle blowers, etc etc.
I guess no one will truly know the full reason,s for inhibited or non-public disclosure of this, or any scientific findings of any kind.
Antioxidants and Cancer - Researchers Admit Mistake
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