[ExI] statins

[BillK]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 00:40, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Did you get the link to the People's Pharmacy?  In it they reference the latest studies.
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> Maybe we have the same situation as when the paid-off Harvard doctors cited fats rather than sugar as a problem in heart diseases.  Statins have meant billions of dollars for Big Pharm.
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> 200 books a year, estimation - about half nonfiction.  I don't watch TV or do much of anything else, and now with the heart thing I am mostly confined to my chair.  But I have been reading like a shark eats since I retired - 1997.
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> bill w
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This new statins report is much criticised in an analysis from the
Science Media Centre.

<https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-analysis-of-clinical-trial-data-on-cholesterol-lowering-drugs-and-targets-for-bad-cholesterol-levels/>

Basically the critics seem to be saying that the three authors made
mistakes in their statistical analysis and reached wrong conclusions.

BillK