Cholesterol Games

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

3rd March 2019

Mahatma Gandhi. ‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.’

A few days ago, the health editor of the Daily Mail wrote to me [and Zoe Harcombe and Aseem Malhotra]. I was informed that the Mail on Sunday was gong to attack us for daring to question the cholesterol hypothesis and the benefits of statins.

Below is the e-mail I received.

From: Barney Calman
Sent: 28 February 2019 16:53
To: malcolmken
Subject: MOS/Right to reply

Dear Dr Kendrick – The Mail on Sunday plans to publish an article this weekend on growing concerns about claims you and a number of other individuals have publicly made about statins, the role of cholesterol in heart disease, and the allegations that researchers into the drugs are financially conflicted due to payments made to the organisations they work for, and so the evidence they provide about the effectiveness of these…

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