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A reply to Peter Mansfield of Healthy Skepticism (Part 2)

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Or: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who shall guard the guardians themselves)

In my previous post I analysed the results of the JUPITER drug trials. I demonstrated that, for the participants, the benefits of taking Rosuvastatin (Crestor) were slight while the risks were far from negligible.

I shall now explain how this translates into a difference of opinion with Healthy Skepticism. However, first, a general comment.

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