Re: [OM] The olden days, was: e-6 processing

[Chuck Norcutt]

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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