Sunday, August 8, 2010

Statins-Let the truth set you free

What would you do for 39 billion dollars a year? Not a measly 100 million, but 39 billion dollars? If the entire existence of your company depended on this discovery, what would you do? Would you keep doing research, despite 9 out of ten of the studies proving that your miracle drug doesn’t work? Would you hire the best and massage the data on your tenth study to make the results look good, no great, no fantastic? Despite an increase in over 2800 % in complications from your medicine? Of course you don’t want to comment on that too much , now do you? The results from your combined studies after appropriate statistical massage now appear so fantastic that everyone should be on your drug, maybe even your dog and your parakeet. Well that is EXACTLY what is going on in the Statin industry, the drug promoted to reduce cholesterol(Crestor, Lipitor, Pravachol, Simvastatin, Vytorin). Of course cholesterol has very little to do with heart disease, but that is really that important when you made 39 billion dollars last year. That means taking normal people, and labeling them patients with “some” supposed increase in cardiac risks, that eventually ONLY means that there insurance premiums will be skyrocketed, and not that they ever will develop heart disease, or even benefit from the statin drug. The only symptom that is almost guaranteed is loss of immediate recall and short term memory, increase in joint and muscle aches, and increased mortality if you are over 65, but of course that has nothing to do with you statin drug and eventually is just blamed on getting old. I assure you IT IS THE STATIN DRUG, and you can find out for yourself when you stop the poison.

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