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Statins - a case study in bias, data transparency & censorship

Maryanne Demasi at the Symposium about Scientific Freedom, Copenhagen, 9 March 2019.

Key points:

  • Lipitor, is the most profitable drug in the history of medicine
  • Sales should reach $1US Trillion by 2020
  • In 2003 and 2004 the threshold of what constitutes "high cholesterol" was lowered
  • 8 out of 9 people in the National Cholesterol Education Program have financial ties to statins
  • "Run In Periods" - @3:35 - one way to hide the harm
  • Egregious lack of transparency - @5:05



2019 Demasi: Statins - a case study in bias, data transparency & censorship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgFhmUY7LKQ