> The cholesterol to heart disease link is one of the best attested in medical science
What about this:
Cholesterol lowering is not the reason for the benefit of statins. If it was, lowering cholesterol via any means should have produced the same benefit, but it doesn’t. One obvious way to confirm this is to find therapies that lower cholesterol by different means (i.e., other than statins) and see if they, too, prevent heart attacks. They don’t. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27taubes.html (Some will discredit the author Gary Taubes without addressing the points he is raising.)
What about this:
Cholesterol lowering is not the reason for the benefit of statins. If it was, lowering cholesterol via any means should have produced the same benefit, but it doesn’t. One obvious way to confirm this is to find therapies that lower cholesterol by different means (i.e., other than statins) and see if they, too, prevent heart attacks. They don’t. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27taubes.html (Some will discredit the author Gary Taubes without addressing the points he is raising.)
The main reason why statins work may not be because they lower cholesterol, but because they reduce the inflammation that leads to heart attacks: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-04-15/heart-dis...
This last link aligns with the new findings.