The article notably excludes Orrin Hatch - if you are wondering how politics could possibly play into this, he made the entire supplements industry possible by

The article notably excludes Orrin Hatch - if you are wondering how politics could possibly play into this, he made the entire supplements industry possible by using his power to exclude dietary supplements from oversight by the FDA and creating a cycle where the industry kept on funding Hatch in order to get favourable legislation. Utah is the home of quack medicine. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/opinion/the-politics-of-fraudulent-dietary-supplements.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/opinion/the-politics-of-f...