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by guerby 262 days ago
Published 2013
1 comments
malfist 262 days ago
The human body evolves on a much slower time scale than decades
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guerby 262 days ago
Piles of money at stake, misinterpreting data, cherry picking data, misplaced pride leading to hiding data or worse, etc...

What the BMJ has to say on this very topic of statins:

https://www.bmj.com/campaign/statins-open-data

So no settled science here.

And remember that the largest ever study on saturated fat and cholesterol lowering was just not published by their original author because it didn't proove their hypothesis.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4836695/

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malfist 261 days ago
Your argument I responded to wasn't that the consensus of science is wrong, your argument was that the study is not valid because it was from the early 2010s
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