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Originally Posted by Djean1981
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Yep, they can cherry pick participants to get desired results.
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That is a completely untrue statement. Unlike many other facets of our lives, medical studies can NOT cherry pick their participants. They have to report exactly what the criteria was to include and exclude participants. The profiles are reviewed by institutional boards, journal editors, and printed very clearly in the study for your edification, if you are capable of reading the material.
The statin studies, again I did not read them, but would have had as inclusion requirements that patients had elevated lipid profiles for which taking a statin might be of benefit. It would perforce include men and women, all races if done on a population that is not homogenous.
So everyone is included in the study who might in the real world take statins except those where some other condition would disqualify. If you so distrust medicine please don't avail yourself of any product made by a major pharmaceutical company or approved by the FDA. Stick with only those things made by unregulated businesses. Have your surgery done with unapproved anesthesia and use untested materials to fix your problems. Please, see only healers who have not gone to rigorous intensive schools for their training. Please do not trust your healing to people who understand medicine and believe in science as a method to test and examine what does or does not actually work.
Learn how science and medicine work, how self correcting it is, how any paper or approach is always subject to alternative approaches and re-examination. This does not mean that medicine is always right at this or any moment. But it will find its errors, and it will find better methods. Because people are always retesting, refining, and improving with the goal of improving health outcomes.