Fri, Sep-09-16, 06:32
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Doing My Best
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Plan: LC/CancerRecovery
Stats: 170/135/130
BF:24%
Progress: 88%
Location: Nevada Desert, USA
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The Statin whitewash continues: from The Guardian
Quote:
“Controversy over the safety and efficacy of statins has harmed the health of potentially thousands of people in the UK,” he wrote in a comment published with the review. In six months after the publication of “disputed research and tendentious opinion” on the side-effects of statins in 2013, a study estimated that over 200,000 patients stopped taking a statin. It predicted there would be 2,000 extra heart attacks and strokes over the next decade as a result.
The Lancet was taking a stand, he said, “because of our experience of MMR. We saw in a very painful way the consequences of publishing a paper which had a huge impact on confidence in a safe and effective vaccine.
“We learned lessons from that episode and those lessons need to be widely promulgated. They are lessons for all journals and all scientists.”
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