Mass media hypes up statins, calling them wonder drugs while ignoring their dangerous side effects

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The mass media hype about statins has reached stratospheric proportions. USA Today, in this article, calls statins a "wonder drug" and poses the ridiculous question, "Should statins be in every medicine cabinet?"

Statins are extremely potent prescription drugs with dangerous side effects that include sudden death from heart failure, a sharp drop in sex hormones, disruption of normal liver function, and complex hormonal imbalances that are only beginning to be identified.

Yet the hype surrounding statins continues, unabated, spurred on by a mainstream media that depends on drug industry advertisers for a generous portion of their revenues. Most doctors, too, have lost their minds when it comes to statins: they're prescribing them at every turn and seem to think that somehow everybody needs statins, whether their cholesterol is high or not. (Even then, garlic and red yeast rice work far better than statins to lower cholesterol, without all the toxic side effects!).

This current hype about statins is a perfect example of the madness of modern medicine. This isn't good science at work, folks, it's the unrelentless hype of a pharmaceutical marketing machine that has managed to convince practically the entire nation that it should be popping dangerous drugs on a daily basis. Brilliant marketing? Yes. Good medicine? Absolutely not.

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