Shocking Revelation About My Beloved Vitamin E in Wikipedia

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While doing my personal research about Vitamin E, I landed in a page in Wikipedia saying dietary Vitamin E is not actually good for our health but rather harmful to our health! It's not exactly written like that but the tone, you know, sounds like that. It's really outrageous! Here's the link for reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_E I will quote some here: Health effects of dietary Vitamin E [i]Prostate cancer There have been some hypothesis that Vitamin E, especially when coupled with selenium, may reduce the risk of prostate cancer[21] by 30 percent.[22] However, the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial, ("SELECT"), run from 2004 to 2008, found that vitamin E, whether taken alone or in combination with selenium, did not prevent prostate cancer.[23] The SELECT study was discontinued after independent reviewers determined that there was no benefit to the 35,000 men who were the subject of the study.[21] [edit] Congenital heart defects A case control study done in the Netherlands using food frequency questionnaires found that high maternal Vitamin E by diet and supplements is associated with an increased risk of CHD (congenital heart defects) offspring, especially when the supplements are taken in the periconception period.[24] (Note: case control studies are rated as low quality, grade 3 or 4, on a standard scale of medical evidence.[25]) The National Health Service in the United Kingdom concludes that pregnant women should: "consider avoiding taking supplemental Vitamin E tablets."[26] [edit] Vitamin E and strokes A Finnish study found that Vitamin E supplementation increased the risk of hemorrhagic stroke.[27] Vitamin E supplementation was shown to increase the risk of heart failure in a 2005 study.[28] [edit] Hepatitis According to a recent clinical trial study, long term Vitamin E supplementation results in a high rate of improvement in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis treatment.[29] [edit] Peyronie's disease Urologists commonly recommend Vitamin E supplementation as a treatment for Peyronie's disease. Some success has been reported in older trials, but those successes have not been reliably repeated in larger, newer studies.[30][/i] The information sounds negative. I admit I was really outraged when I read this because I spend a lot of money taking high doses of Vitamin E (400 I.U.) every day thinking it is good for our health and I believe in its antioxidant and anti-aging property. You know how expensive Vitamin E preparations are... But the above information is a result of research. They just presented results of their research. Who are we to question them? I am afraid there's nothing I can do but to accept the truth, the results of research, that Vitamin E is bad for our health. But I feel its really hard to accept this... Can we count on the information posted in Wikipedia? Are they reliable? Can we trust them? What's your view of this?