Natural v. Synthetic...or why people who don't know anything about science shouldn't write restaurant nutrition quizzes.

On Saturday my family and I went out to eat at a restaurant in downtown Provo. On our table was a little pamphlet containing a quiz about nutrition. The first question was, "What types of vitamins are harmful to our health?" Their answer was, "Most of the vitamins today are made from laboratory chemicals and not from natural whole food sources."

Umm...ok?

I don't believe they answered the question, unless they are implying that any and all vitamins made in a lab (which are chemically identical to those found in "natural whole food sources") are bad for you. This sort of mentality drives me crazy. People, science is not out to kill you. Science makes our world a better place (when appropriately applied). If you want to go all granola and not give your kids vaccines because you think it'll give them autism, if you want to eat "organic" (another thing that drives me crazy, all food is organic, last time I checked it's all carbon-based, except maybe Twinkies...who knows what are in those things?) food because you're afraid you'll be poisoned by pesticides, if you want to only take "natural" vitamins, then by all means, go ahead. Go ahead and die of polio or hepatitis or the bacteria in your preservative-free food.

What do you guys think? Does this restaurant quiz have a point? Are laboratory-made vitamins harmful? Or is this another case of consumer science paranoia?