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How medical research walked back the strong claims for the role of cholesterol in heart disease, which in turn supported the use of statins.
An unsparing look at some glaring deficiencies in reserach and training in medicine.
Ancel Keys’ religious certainty made him the disciple for the promotion of what would become a politically and commercially-driven agenda.
Prof Tim Noakes focuses on the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) and elaborates on how Keys was able to “sell” unproven hypotheses regarding CHD.
In Part 10 of the series, Noakes recounts the ways in which Keys circumvented the rigour of scientific process to “wage war on cholesterol”.