The article does in a way - you take those vitamins because someone, somewhere at some time was pushing them as an amazing cure. A couple studies were done, data was likely cherry picked, and now you pay money to some company to give it to you. That company makes very sure that beneficial studies are done as often as possible.
I doubt that those vitamins are doing you much harm, but I honestly doubt that you are getting much real benefit from them either (unless you have a real, medical deficiency). But hey, taking them probably makes you feel safer, so you'll likely keep taking them regardless.
Interestingly, the age of a person is usually the best indicator of which vitamins they will take - people often get snagged into some 'holy grail' vitamin (free radicals being the newest) and then continue to take them because accepting that what you've been paying for over years is a waste of money is very hard to take.
I doubt that those vitamins are doing you much harm, but I honestly doubt that you are getting much real benefit from them either (unless you have a real, medical deficiency). But hey, taking them probably makes you feel safer, so you'll likely keep taking them regardless.
Interestingly, the age of a person is usually the best indicator of which vitamins they will take - people often get snagged into some 'holy grail' vitamin (free radicals being the newest) and then continue to take them because accepting that what you've been paying for over years is a waste of money is very hard to take.