My mind is always open, but I have stopped taking statins after some sort of serious side effects/infection which is most likely statin poisoning.

Other studies like this have found heart attacks reduced, but not total mortality.

It is also likely that maybe 25% of those using statins will suffer side effects, and some of them serious, and for some not reversable.

Another possibility, referred to earlier, that the good statins do may not be directly related to lowering cholesterol, but by some other mechanism. If that is so very low doses of statins may provide the same benefit but without side effects. My side effects appeared after doctor doubled statin dosage to help with triglycerides (which statins don't help, or so I have read).