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Old Mon, Feb-11-19, 09:22
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Good article.

From Kendrick:

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Well, of course, it was the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists Collaboration (CTT) from Oxford. Run by Professor Sir Rory Collins and Professor Colin Baigent. They do almost all these meta-analyses on statins because they hold all the data. So, no-one else can really do them. . . . The CTT is in this hallowed position because they made a pact with the dev… sorry …they made a pact with the pharmaceutical industry to take hold of all the data on statins from all the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture statins and collate the data.

The CTT are very closely associated with the Oxford Clinical Trials Service Unit (CTSU). The CTSU is run by, and has employed, most of those in the CTT. Collins and Baigent, etc.

The CTSU is a clinical trials unit. Last time I looked, it had obtained nearly £300 million in funding from the pharmaceutical industry for running clinical trials on various cholesterol lowering medications.

The CTT will not let anyone else see the data they hold. Including all the data on adverse events [side-effects] and serious adverse events. It is kept completely secret.

Anyway, my point here is that the CTT is a horribly conflicted organisation that has been paid, directly or indirectly, a great deal of money by the pharmaceutical industry.

And he goes on with a link to provide more details of the conflicts of interest of this unholy "marriage."

Wow! This is what we're faced with today on many levels for those who are attempting to achieve and maintain health. Whether it's propaganda financed along with payouts to the "experts" by pharma, or food policy positions with distorted health facts, it requires people to become knowledgeable and vigilant, because it's hard to trust information any longer in our information age. The dream of having massive information available due to improved technology comes with a huge price. It requires people to become much more knowledgeable to simply sift through fact, fiction, and know the difference.
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