A Shrill (But Oh So True) Take On Supplements

Timothy Egan is one of my favorite New York Times Op-Ed writers and I have rarely seen him this exercised, this eloquent and this right. Here's a little taste:

If you want to know how we came to be a nation where everyone is a doctor, sound science is vilified and seemingly smart people distrust vaccinations, come to Utah — whose state flower should be St. John’s wort. Here, the nexus of quack pharma and industry-owned politicians has produced quite a windfall: nearly one in four dollars in the supplement market passes though this state.