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

July 1, 2004 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews
Key concepts: statins, mass media, drugs

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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.

About the author: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, is the editor of NaturalNews. Author of over twelve books, and fifteen hundred articles on natural health, Adams is widely considered the most prolific writer on natural health today.

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