Glacier pace? Lots and lots of doctors jump feet first with fads. I mean c'mon, are you guys that oblivious to what goes on? Any doctor that has prescribed a statin.....or probably 100% of them...jumped on the fat/cholesterol is dangerous...bandwagon. The longitudinal studies have basically shown that statins prevent minor stroke/heart attack, but not major stroke/heart attack which was the hope. A lot of people skeptical about the rush to statins thought that'd be the case, and now we'll have to deal with the long term problems of chronic statins use...which could be significant. Cholesterol is critical in synapse formation/protection and synapse loss is the hallmark of every neurodegenerative disease...like Alzheimers. There are a lot of people holding their breath and crossing their fingers that we don't see an explosion in those problems. Statins can cause muscle issues as well (muscle weakness is a primary side effect)...so the same goes for the heart. If you want to blame big pharma, go ahead, but they just jumped on the scientific fad of being anti-fat.
There are crazy fads in science and crazy fads in medicine...and most are just that, fads...trends without much underlying basis. The "intelligensia" jump on those bandwagons as causes and HAMMER those that don't. It becomes dogma until proven otherwise. That's what goes on. Maybe that's how science works all the time, I dunno. Causes mean funding so scientists rarely voice caution...loudly. But the number of people on here that don't seem to realize the process that's been going on or accept that is what goes on is pretty staggering to me.