[Sabella]

Originally Posted by blueash

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.

I have a bridge to sell you. Dig deeper. Drug trials are paid for by the pharmaceutical company producing the drug. The doctors running the trials ? Look up Dr Sinatra. The CDC has a board of doctors who agree or disagree on administering drugs or vaccines they feel are safe to the public. Research how the majority voted no recently on a few but were ignored and the drugs were made available to public. The FDA allows and has increased arsenic and heavy metals in baby food while other countries don’t allow it. No one knows the short term or long term effects of Covid vaccines but you can’t sue the drug companies. What’s going on here? Those of you who still believe the federal government protects and serves the people better wake up.I could go on and on but why waste my time.