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["clanSkeen" <sgian AT planetc.com>]

Tvo,

Gene's thinking (in your 'conversations' at least) is quite in line with the 
conventional wisdom.  In talking with someone in the healthcare profession 
who was rigorously defending using liver-toxic chemicals to lower blood 
cholesterol, I pointed out that long term use is increasingly shown to cause 
permanent liver damage predisposing the patient to a number of debilitating 
and life threatening diseases.

HCP:  But the statistics clearly show that people on these drugs have a 
significantly decreased risk of dying of heart disease.

Me:  But that's because the drugs are do toxic, they are dying of something 
else first.

HCP:  Doesn't matter.  They aren't dying of heart disease so the drugs work.



It reminds me of one of Rodney Dangerfield's bits:  "I asked my doctor to 
give me something to stop me from aging.  He handed me a pistol."

James