Comments on: The view from Statin Island

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:48:54 +0000

Kind of like the old adage about too many cooks and the broth?

By: CGHill

CGHill — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:27:03 +0000

But ... they have all those layers of editors! How could they mess anything up? ("Editors don't get laid."—Ed.)

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:46:09 +0000

Looks to me like somebody at Reuters figured out that those figures suggested those who don’t take statins are “just under 50% more likely to die than those who don’t.”

And some idiot edited the verbiage on the assumption that the same percentage would apply. Innumeracy, thy name is journalist.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:35:33 +0000

I am going to take every statistic I hear surrounding this disease with a large grain of salt (for which I may need beta blockers, later in life).