Can statins prevent Alzheimer's, as recent news stories suggest, or is this just correlation-not-causation? Alan Cassels says the latter: "This may have been a soundbite that editors found irresistible, with news stories appearing around the globe, including China, the U.K., Singapore, Australia, and the U.S. The wildfire spread of this news demonstrated that axiom of Mark Twain’s that 'a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.'"
December 20, 2016
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