
Originally Posted by
terrets
So you believe that vitamin C does nothing good for the human body? Okay......?

Have you ever taken it when sick..? I dont get how you can say this is conning the citizens.
I actually have a vitamin C bottle in my room

It says 1667% Daily value. Holy crap haha never noticed that...
Vitamin C is good for you, but 20x the daily dosage is not necessary. Best case scenario, your body dumps the 19x it doesn't need. Worst case scenario, it accumulates and causes you harm by depleting other nutrients, or stressing your body. For most vitamins it is the former, but overdosing on some can cause serious problems. I had a vitamin B complex that has 30x the daily riboflavin (B2), every time I took a tablet, I'd spent the next day urinating bright fluorescent (highlighter) yellow pee. It was the uber-excess of riboflavin, there was so much of it, it was turning my pee a different color. At best, all it was doing was overworking my kidneys.
The argument you put forth is akin to saying, "water is good for you, no reason not to drink 20 gallons a day". Vitamins were very usefull, even necessary 100 years ago when diets were so limited people died of preventable disease (scurvy, rickets, etc.), but today your diet should suffice. If it makes you feel better, take a "100% of each" multivitamin. But 5000% of a specific vitamin is totally unnecessary and could harm you.

Originally Posted by
terrets
The vitamin supplement industry is pissed. But those wanting to produce synthetic items are in a greater number and have more power
But, the vitamin supplement industry and those who produce synthetic items are one and the same. You don't think the vitamin C in your supplement came from oranges that went through some overly long organic refining process do you!?!

Originally Posted by
terrets
But I just dont see the good in people, especially people with power.
I have almost no faith in people at all. I bet Monsanto or BP would be totally fine knowingly contributing to the deaths of a few random innocent people if they were spared any and all reprisal (and law suits). But a conspiracy involving different parties is very unlikely. Especially one where there is no tangible benefit. Paying off a few doctors to get a drug passed FDA approval without all the appropriate tests so that a pharmaceutical company can make an extra 20 billion is quite plausible, but a global conspiracy involving thousands of people, to spray random sh-t from commercial airplanes for some undefined increase in "control" is nonsense.

Originally Posted by
terrets
In regards to your first post Telionis, who ever said the larger the conspiracy the less likely it is to be true? Who has proof of this? I think the larger the conspiracy, the easier it is to hide these horrible things because there is much more control and power
I totally disagree. It is common sense, that the more people involved in a plot, the less secure the secret is. It only takes one guy to spill the beans and ruin everything.
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