Questioning the massive overprescription of cholesterol-lowering medication is risky. When the Australian TV show Catalyst aired a show discussing this the drug industry went into damage control overdrive:
Dr. Kendrick: Attacking those who criticise statins - againOf course it's much more effective for the attacks to be perceived to come from outside the industry. So for example in the article discussed by Dr. Kendrick. It's about how negative statin news in the media decrease the number of people taking the drugs, possibly (given all kinds of assumptions) resulting in more people dying.
A potentially effective way to silence critics and journalists: "take your drugs and shut up, leave the thinking to us".
This article is written by a Dr. Børge G. Nordestgaard, who just happen to receive an unknown amount of money for "consultancy" and for "lectures" from Astra Zeneca, Pfizer and Merck. These are the three companies making billions of dollars selling the statins Crestor, Lipitor and Zocor.
Is Dr. Nordestgaard a concerned scientist or a simple industry attack dog? With his pockets stuffed with statin money? You decide.