The following link may be an eye opener for many who are not familiar with the fact that statins do not really improve longevity, or that the Big Pharma bottom line controls too much of the medical standards of care treatments with expensive pharmaceuticals approved by the FDA based on RCTs paid for by Big Pharma... with shaky medical evidence... 

Read the interview in the link below then you decide...

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Take care,

V/R, Batch

Yep, .... and I get real tickled when they give all the "side effects" on the commercials.. some of them are contradictive to the treatment.

My favorite is the one for headaches.. the side effect - "Can cause headaches!" Go figure... ::)

Back years ago when Marcus Welby, MD was on TV on Thursday night.. the clinic staff dreaded Friday mornings.. every little old lady in the county would come in with the symptoms of whatever Dr. Welby cured the night before.  :)

Today, the phar. companies are advertising their latest "break-thrus" in modern medicine to cure everything from hang-nails to cancer and everyone wants to try them. It's ridiculous, but ....

Off soapbox..  :-*

No doubt....they are in it for the bottom line...that's what they do...it's why they exist.

It's the individuals that follow that path for personal gain that really bother me.

Racer1_NC wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2014 at 1:09pm:

No doubt....they are in it for the bottom line...that's what they do...it's why they exist.

It's the All American way. American capitalism at it's best.