The researcher's comment IS false based on the information we have available to date. We do not know if fish oil is worthless or not. The researcher implicitly

The researcher's comment IS false based on the information we have available to date. We do not know if fish oil is worthless or not. The researcher implicitly states that he knows fish oil is worthless based on the evidence to date, when the evidence to date is much more mixed. The NEJM article in this thread is much better evidence -- a 13k RCT that found no statistically significant benefit in 1g/day of omega 3s. On the other hand, there was a large 11k trial in the 90s that did find benefit 1g/day of omega 3s: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10465168 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10465168 The VITAL study underway will be interesting. It's the largest trial to date on fish oil and is looking at a healthy normal population, as opposed to those with CVD or high-risk of CVD.