I won't bait Chuck - I shall not discuss this point here _ :-) - not
again. I know what you think about this, and fortunately your thoughts
are in the archives. You are completely free to follow the ideas about
which you are convinced. I will not try to convince you on another point
of view, and consequentially this implies I do have a different point of
view; which I may change when enough evidence arises _ that moment has
not come yet.
IMHO - :-)
Fernando.
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Unfortunately, everything that's known about cholesterol as a risk
> factor for heart disease is based on epdemiological data. There really
> is no medicine involved... just statistics and a lot of really bad
> statistics and, yes, even dishonest statistics at that. And if a drug
> company is involved in the funding you can be sure the statistics are
> dishonest and this is how it's done:
> <http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020138>
>
> Start here for the antidote
> <http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm>
>
> And don't be like my doctor who freely admits that he has no statistical
> training whatsoever and can only read the summaries of many papers with
> an epidemiological basis. As Ranvskov points out it is not uncommon for
> the summaries of such papers to make specific claims for the study that
> are in no way supported by the actual data presented in the paper. I
> didn't believe that when I first read it but have since verified it in a
> few short papers that were small enough for me to comprehend. How
> prevalent is it? I don't really know except that I picked two three
> page papers at random based only on short length. Both papers made
> claims in the summary not supported by the data in the paper. What ever
> happened to peer review???? I can only conclude that the "peers" are
> involved as well.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
>
>> I'll keep my promise: I shall never again discuss about statins with
>> you, Chuck - anyone is free to decide what he thinks is best.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> That's easy. Just don't take statins.
>>> <http://thincs.org/>
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
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