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by refurb 4834 days ago
The article I was referring to was the BJM article.

Oh yes, I know all about Marcia Angell. She has been rallying against the pharma industry for over a decade. The link I posted also goes into some of the outrageous things she has said that are completely unsupportable.

Here is another article talking about Marcia:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2012/12/14/marcia-...

Does pharma do bad things? Yes! But claiming there is a pharma conspiracy to drive down "target" cholesterol levels so they can sell more drugs is laughable. It ignores all the scientific evidence (most of it NOT from pharma companies), much of it published in her the journal she works for.