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I am not ‘anti-statin’. I take them for my heart condition. I am genuinely agnostic on the cholesterol issue. I see no point in a pro/anti approach. But there is nothing wrong with a healthy and light-hearted scepticism when it comes to the public debate on statins and the claims made for their efficacy, which is deeply politicized at the moment. And one might ponder why an association noted in a ‘preliminary’ retrospective and observational study, which might ‘potentially’ lead towards a clinical trial ‘in 10 to 15 years’, is headline news, and that the word ‘statins’ is so prominent in that headline.
Although the article that Dillinger has linked to is in today's Telegraph the story itself has been around since 2012/13, if you do a Google search it will say as much
As you say it's good to debate, I was reading that something like 7 million people in the UK are on statins so your not alone by any means, many on the forum also take them.