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Essays by Malcolm Kendrick, MD
(originally published in RedFlagsDaily)

June 11, 2006
How To Bury $400M About the Women’s Health Initiative’s heart intervention study 

Jan 11, 2006
Statins and cancer

Oct 28, 2005
Justice Saves Lives
  
About stress and heart disease

Oct 24, 2005
Reflections On Scientific Dogma
 
Thoughts around the new Nobel Prize winners

Oct 19, 2005
ASCOT–BPLA
(Another Stupid Commercially Overhyped Trial – Before Prescribing Look Again)

Sep 28, 2005
The Constant Gardener.
About drug company morale

Sep 14, 2005
More Grist To The Grill.
About stress and the heart

Sep 9, 2005
What Tangled Webs We Weave.
Who to believe in medical science

Aug. 3, 2005
Temporarily Able
Are there any healthy people out there?

July 29, 2005
Too little, too late
Can we believe in medical science?

July 14, 2005
Statins and Dementia 

June 28, 2005
Spotting the Sleigh Of Hand
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How to evaluate the effect of a new treatment in a few seconds

June 21, 2005
A Small Ray of Sunshine
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More about doctors and the pharmaceutical industry

June 16, 2005
Horray - Sort Of
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About the links between the medical industry and doctors.

May 24, 2005
Statins And Cancer. (Now It Is Getting Silly)

May 22, 2005
Gosh, Really, You Don´t Say
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About the links between the medical journals and the drug industry

May 17, 2005
Stopping Statins is Bad For Your Health

May 8, 2005
Time For A Conspiracy Theory Or Two.
‘Pharmaceutical Industry Opposition to Reimportation 'Financial Suicide,' Pfizer's Rost Says

April 19, 2005
‘Armed and Dangerous’ – Wake up Call
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About drug reps

March 24, 2005
Thank God He Didn't Die of Heart Disease Doctor
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About the new "succesful" high-dose statin trial TNT

Jan 16, 2005
He Who Pays the Piper Calls The Tune
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About opinion leaders and their payments.

Winter 
The Zocor Debacle - I Told You So! But The Great Ship “Cholesterol-Lowering” Has Ripped Its Guts Out On The Harsh Rocks Of Evidence, But Still It Does Not Sink
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About high and low-dose statin.

December 20, 2004
Just Call Me "The Great Nostrakendrickos"

December 17, 2004
AN ASTONISHING FINDING THAT FAILS TO SURPRISE

December 10 2004
FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET
(It’s not a plane, it’s not a train, it’s super-Celebrex-researcherman)

December 3, 2004
GROUNDHOG DAY – IN REVERSE

October 22, 2004
BERARDINELLI-SEIP – EXPLAIN THAT?

October 11, 2004
A SUGARY TALE

Sept 29, 2004 
Conflict of Interest - Time To Count The Spoons?

September 16, 2004
Cholesterol And The French Paradox, The Swiss Paradox, The Russian Paradox, The Lithuanian Paradox...Etc...

September 2, 2004
Sneak Attack!
A Major Shift In Heart Disease Risk Assessment Has Whipped By Right Under Our Noses In A New Global Study...Say Goodbye To Raised Cholesterol/LDL As A Risk Factor In Heart Disease

June 17, 2004
We
Are Sleep-Walking Into What Could Become A Major Medical Disaster Because Statin Drugs Will Soon Be Sold Over-The-Counter

March 11, 2004
PROVE-IT AND BEYOND
A Massive Nail In The Coffin Of The Cholesterol, Or LDL, Hypothesis? 
   

March 10, 2004
PROVE IT - PROVE WHAT
New Study Data Has Researchers And “Rent-A-Quote” Doctors Pushing For More Intensive Cholesterol-Lowering Treatment. This Is Massive Hype. 

Feb 17, 2004
THE DEATH OF THE REFERENCE

An example from heart disease research and yet another reason why the scientific machine is close to meltdown

 Jan. 25, 2003  
ATKINS AND THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

(Ye cannae change the laws of physics, Cap'n) 

   
Dec 3, 2003  
STATINS FOR CHILDREN – THIS IS MADNESS
 
When someone sent me a copy of an article in the Washington Post, stating that more and more doctors now think that children as young as four should be put on statins, my fingers started to itch.  


Nov 22, 2003  
WHY THE ATKINS DIET IS HEALTHY

I was idly watching a programme on the Atkins diet last night which, to my surprise, was reasonably balanced. Yes folks, the Atkins diet has crossed the pond to reach the United Kingdom. Although, in reality, all it is doing is returning. After all we invented it nearly one hundred and fifty years ago.  

Nov.6,2003  
LIQUID DRANO-LIKE SYNTHETIC “GOOD CHOLESTEROL” PLAQUE BUSTER! IT’S SCIENCE, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT

“ The concept that HDL could remove cholesterol from a plaque is such a stupid idea that I cannot believe it still exists. Once you understand the science, the whole thing is patently ridiculous.”

   
Sept 17, 2003
TELEOANALYSIS — OR WHEN I FINALLY REALIZED THAT I HAD FALLEN DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

The first step in teleoanalysis, as demonstrated in a paper just published in the British Medical Journal, apparently, is to condemn all clinical trials that fail to show you what you want…. And it appears that this method of analysis provides the answers to questions that would be obtained from studies that have not been done or cannot be done….This way you can always get the results you want….When I read this I thought it must be a joke….But it was not a joke….

Sept. 12, 2003  
ATKINS MUST BE DESTROYED!

"I wanted to make it clear that the attacks on Atkins are not scientific, not rational. Atkins, may he rest in peace, is being attacked because his diet threatens the mainstream. He and his supporters are being subjected to the secular equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition…."  

SO, WHAT DOES CAUSE HEART DISEASE?
One thing that has seriously hampered research in this area is the factor that I call "terminological inexactitude"  

July 10, 2003  

HOW RISKY IS A RISK?
An analysis that will make it easier for you to hack your way through the misinformation that spews forth from the great medical research machine  

May 21, 2003   
THE NEW HYPERTENSION GUIDELINES

Now we are all to be officially ill  

May 13, 2003   
BEWARE THE PLACEBO EFFECT
Everyone is quite happy to accept that there is a placebo effect, without ever bothering to measure it in any meaningful way. It just happens, it’s there, and we all believe in it. We’ve all seen it, for goodness sake! Or have we?  

April 15, 2003   

TYPE ll DIABETES ISN’T A DISEASE
That’s because it’s merely a blood sugar measurement. A sign. An effect. Not a disease, or a cause. We have become mesmerized by blood sugar levels — we fight to get them down — we are happy when the level is lowered. Doctors claim when the blood sugar level falls below an arbitrary figure that the Type ll Diabetes has been treated, even cured. But what exactly have we cured?

March 21, 2003   
IS HEART DISEASE ALL DUE TO BLOOD CLOTS?
If you want to understand coronary heart disease, you cannot ignore the role of the humble blood clot  

March 14, 2003   

IS IT ALL A BIG FAT LIE?
The pro and anti-fat battle seems to be raging in the colonies, with people hurling data of mass destruction at each other with great vigour. As usual, I find that "truth is the first victim in any war."  

March 10, 2003   
THE JOY OF HYPERTENSION TRIALS
"A" equals "B,"and "B" equals "C," yer "C" is greater than "A"  

Feb. 17, 2003  
TREATING HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: WHAT CAN YOU BELIEVE?
For those of us who enjoy the use of weasel words and non-scientific rubbish dressed up as fact, this is indeed a grand territory to explore….  

Feb. 4, 2003   
OKAY, DO YOU KNOW WHAT A "FAT" IS?

I can’t imagine why anyone ever thought that saturated fat in the diet had an impact on cholesterol levels  

Jan. 30, 2003   
WHAT ON EARTH IS A LIPOPROTEIN?

You must have heard this term a million times. Even so, there is an enormous level of confusion about the whole area of cholesterol, lipids, lipoproteins, fats….Can we get real and make the whole debate about cholesterol easier?  

Jan. 9, 2003   
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: IT’S A SYMPTOM, NOT A DISEASE, STUPID!  

Nov. 28, 2002
WHY THE CHOLESTEROL-HEART DISEASE THEORY IS WRONG

Nov. 21, 2002

IDIOTIC THINKING IN MEDICINE - C-REACTIVE PROTEIN
How The Medical Profession Will Turn A Symptom Into A Disease  

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