Tag: risk reduction
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The Number They Never Put in the Headline
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (May 1, 2026) — We’ve seen it a thousand times. When pharma decides it wants to open a new market, it makes mountains out of molehills on efficacy. When that market is threatened by measured risk detectable as such, they start digging to bury it. Popular Rationalism has definitive, cited,…
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Making the Statins Mess Clear, Once and For All
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD and Dr. David Brownstein, ©2026 (Feb. 24, 2026) — (NB: I am grateful for Dr. Brownstein’s continuous objectivity on the true status of the science on statins. He raises the bar above rhetoric. Here, he joins me in an earnest attempt to describe precisely why doctors who think statins are generally useful or…