Antioxidants don't work, but no one wants to hear it.

[Copa]

http://www.slate.com/id/2300578/

...Well, there is a wee small problem in our ongoing anti-oxidize-athon: As it turns out, we have no evidence that antioxidants are beneficial in humans. (Though if you're a Sprague-Dawley rat, there's hope.) In fact, as Emily Anthes wrote last year in Slate, the best available data demonstrate that antioxidants are bad for you—so long as you count an increased risk of death as "bad."...

[Ratiomania]

http://www.slate.com/id/2300578/

...Well, there is a wee small problem in our ongoing anti-oxidize-athon: As it turns out, we have no evidence that antioxidants are beneficial in humans. (Though if you're a Sprague-Dawley rat, there's hope.) In fact, as Emily Anthes wrote last year in Slate, the best available data demonstrate that antioxidants are bad for you—so long as you count an increased risk of death as "bad."...

Ungläubiger! Nimm mir nicht meine schöne moderne Form des Ablasshandels für meine sterbliche Hülle weg! Erst sind probiotische, dann heilende Lebensmittel und jetzt auch noch Antioxidantien weg! Ketzer!