Statins demonstrably reduce cardiovascular disease risk but also carry risks and can harm some individuals.

“let's take a drug that i mean just demonstrably reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease like you just you know you've got to look far and wide to figure out over the right time horizon if you give statins for a year you might not see a benefit but demonstrably the biggest sea change we've had in the reduction of risk for the most prevalent chronic condition in the developed world would anybody with a straight face say that there aren't risks of statins nobody with a straight face could tell you that statins don't harm some people”