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