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Are scientists who offer poor public advice and cause mass deaths culpable?

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A trial begins this week in Italy where six leading Italian scientists and one government official are being charged with manslaughter in connection to public advice regarding the likelihood of a major earthquake in 2009 in L’Aquila, a town 55 miles northeast of Rome. The trial begs the question: do we hold the government equally liable for their unwillingness to make better vitamin D recommendations and potentially save lives? Continue reading

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Betrayal of a Nation: Why U.S. health authorities are keeping you vitamin D deficient and who stands to gain

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Dr. Anne Looker, of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), could not have made Professor Hector DeLuca, the University of Wisconsin, and certain folks at big pharma, any happier with her recent widely reported analysis of the vitamin D status of Americans… Continue reading

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