Overviews and Similar
* indicates that the author is a member of THINCS
Angell, Marcia | Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption. By the previous editor of New England Journal of medicine. |
Colpo, Anthony |
LDL Cholesterol: “Bad” Cholesterol, Or Bad Science.A brilliant review of the cholesterol folly published in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons |
Freeman, David | Lies, Damned Lies and Medical Science. The Atlantic Nov. 2010 |
Groves, Barry* | Second Opinions. Exposing Dietary And Medical Misinformation. According to Petr Skrabanek and James McCormick Scepticaemia is “an uncommon generalised disorder of low infectivity. Medical school education is likely to confer life-long immunity”. This review is written by an individual whose scepticism is undisturbed, possibly because he has never attended a medical school Why a calorie isn’t necessarily a calorieBMJ Rapid Response Dec 24, 2005. |
Johnson, Lorie, CBN News | Cholesterol Myth: What really Causes Heart Disease? Oct 28, 2012 |
Kendrick, Malcolm* | Why The Cholesterol-Heart Disease Theory is Wrong. (originally published in RedFlagsDaily) Have we been conned about cholesterol? An article in Daily Mail about Malcolm Kendrick’s new book. Why raised cholesterol levels do not cause heart disease. Talk at a meeting of the Leeds branch of the Briish Medical Association. Five parts on Youtube: Part 1: Cholesterol Part 2: Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Part 3: About Statins Part 4: Stress and the HPA axis (Bjorntorp) Part 5: CVD Populations and Stress |
Loren, Karl | High Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease? Truth Revealed! |
McCully, Kilmer S* | Your number is up! The story about atherosclerosis and its rediscovered cause Cholesterol. About one of our most useful and beneficial molecules. |
Naughton, Tom | Big Fat Fiasco: how the misguided fear of saturated fat created a nation of obese diabetics.A humourous speech with a serious content. Five parts, on Youtube |
Public Citizen | Dec 16, 2010:. Rapidly Increasing Criminal and Civil Monetary Penalties Against the Pharmaceutical Industry: 1991 to 2010 |
Ravnskov, Uffe* | New Cholesterol Guidelines For Converting Healthy People Into Patients Very soon, half of adult mankind is on statin treatment. Is it really wise? Talk given in Sydney August 2006 (audio) Saturated Fat is Good for You A paper in three parts The Cholesterol Myths.Do you think high cholesterol and animal fat are the direct route to cardiovascular death? Read this! Should medical science ignore the past?A comment to new guidelines for cholesterol lowering published in British Medical Journal Ignore the Awkward! How the Cholesterol Myths are Kept Alive.A new book.about how prominent scientists have turned white into black by ignoring all conflicting observations; by twisting and exaggerating trivial findings; by citing studies with opposing results in a way to make them look supportive; and by ignoring or scorning the work of critical scientists. Includes a short and simplified version of his previous book |
Ravnskov, Uffe*, McCully, Kilmer* | Vulnerable plaque formation from obstruction of vasa vasorum by homocysteinylated and oxidized lipoprotein aggregates complexed with microbial remnants and LDL autoantibodies. A new hypothesis explaining all observations that do not fit with the diet-cholesterol-heart myth, published in Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science |
Smith, Justin | Statin Nation. A film exposing the over-prescription of cholesterol-lowering medications and the misrepresentation of medicaL evidence. With interviews of several members of THINCS. Listen also to an interview with the producer and director Justin Smith (starts at 8.05) |
Wallace, Hannah | Interview with Uffe Ravnskov in The Faster Time: High Cholesterol is Good |
Vos, Eddie* | Nutrition, Health and Heart Disease |