Dr. Aseem Malhotra

“if you're low risk of heart disease, you haven't had a heart attack, your benefit of statin is 1%, right? And when you tell people that, most people, Joe, don't want to take the pill anyway.”

“his department had taken over 200 million pounds at Oxford for doing research into statins from the drug industry. And they also kept the data commercially confidential.”

“between 2003 and 2016, most of the top 10 drug companies paid fines totaling about $33 billion for illegal marketing of drugs, hiding data on harms, and manipulation of results”

“1976, swine flu vaccine was pulled because it was found to cause a debilitating neurological condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome in about one in 100,000 people. Rotavirus vaccine pulled in 1999,…”

“One survey in the US suggested that 50% of American adults thought that their risk of being hospitalized with COVID was 50%, one in two, when the real figure at that time was about one in 100.”