Scottish Doctor, author, speaker, sceptic
In my book the Clot Thickens, and in other blogs and lectures, I have stated that LDL cannot get through the endothelium (lining of blood vessel walls) and into the artery wall behind. So, the idea of LDL leaking from the bloodstream and into the artery wall is nonsense. Recently, however, people have been bombarding [ ]
This weekend, Sat 30th Sun 31st. WE LOVE OUR HEART – This weekend sat 30th, Sun 31st May Some of you may know of Mark Felstead and his tireless work to promote new ways to protect your heart, and keep lovely clean arteries where the blood flows fast and smooth. This weekend there is [ ]
[Part two of a review on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Which approved Wegovy (semaglutide) for use in preventing CV disease]. Stripping it down to basics, the key messages from the NICE report were: You may have noticed three little black boxes. Yes, redacted, redacted, and … yes, well, redacted once [ ]
Lose weight, reduce the risk of CV disease – unless you are taking Wegovy? [A tale of mystery and intrigue unfolds]. A lot of people have asked me about the weight loss drugs known as glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 agonists) e.g. Wegovy (semaglutide), or Mounjaro (tirzepatide). What do I think of them, are they [ ]
When I started the process of critiquing the Lancet paper I thought I was going to strip it down to its component parts. However, I have come to realise this would take far too long. Even longer than it has already taken – which is probably too long. A truly detailed critique would mean that [ ]
THE WAR When I first heard the CTT at Oxford had published their latest analysis on statin adverse effects I must admit I sighed deeply. Do they never give up? This was the latest salvo in a long running war between the pro-statinators and the anti-statinators. Or, as I like to think of it, those [ ]
Finally, you may think, some figures. In this blog I want to look at some of the figures on adverse effects seen in a number of statin trials such figures as it is possibly to unearth anyway. Unlike the CTT in Oxford I along with almost every other researcher in the world [ ]
Under-reporting or over-reporting? I am going to start part two by looking at the evidence for statins causing ‘non-imagined’ adverse effects. Or, to put it another way, real effects. My own view on this is that the adverse effects of statins are significantly under-reported. Mainly because patients often don’t associate the drug with the problem. [ ]
‘A lie is halfway round the world, before the truth has a chance to get its boots on.’ A quote used most famously by Winston Churchill. A few of you may have noticed a recent paper in the Lancet written by the Oxford Cholesterol Treatment Triallists Collaboration (CTT). Much to no-one’s great surprise it fully [ ]
My son tends to dismiss the idea of watching any film from before about say, the year 1990. Terrible special effects, he informs me, and just too old. As for anything in black and white … no, just, no. Why watch old stuff, it’s rubbish. The fool. In science there also seems to be a [ ]
I read an article in Nature magazine a couple of years ago which has nagged at me ever since. It highlighted the sobering fact there has been a collapse in disruptive science. ‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why 04 January 2023 The proportion of publications that send a field in a [ ]
[Warning, this blog is long] I have been silent for some time… I know, I know. I started looking at Covid-19 and ended up in some very strange places indeed. ‘Here be dragons.’ I ended up wandering about, making absolutely no progress. Eventually, I ground to a halt. My insurmountable barrier was highlighted in an [ ]
The Cover-up Part One (context) A cover up. Yes, I know, I have repeatedly said that I do not believe there was a great world-wide conspiracy around COVID. Instead, I think that almost everything that went on can be explained by incompetence, greed and panic. Which was then stoked up by various people, for [ ]
This is primarily a matter of trust – and the lack of it. If it looks like a conspiracy, and quacks like a conspiracy … or, to change focus slightly to Covid. If it looks like 1984, and quacks like 1984 – it’s probably 1984. What happened with Covid I found extraordinary and scary. Within [ ]
Does Sars-Cov-2 exist? I ask this question because a number of people have claimed the entire Covid pandemic was a made-up event. A ‘plandemic’ If you like. There was no new virus, it never existed. Others question whether or not viruses actually exist, as ‘they have never been seen.’ I get these comments quite a [ ]
Part One (a): Are the facts, facts? ‘The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate and contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.’ John F. Kennedy. I do not think that anyone can write about Covid without first recognising that the facts, may not actually be ‘the [ ]
Brevity? [Not my strong point] Today, it is almost as if it never happened. The time of COVID-19 (which I shall simply call Covid from here on). It came, it went, it is now ancient history. Hardly anyone wants to talk about it anymore. Why not? I suppose you could say, what’s the point? You [ ]
And so, we reach the final end to the court case. You may think it all finished months ago, not so. The final, final act is when we have the reading of the Statement in Open Court (SIOC). This took place Thursday the 5th of December 2024. Which is five years and nine months after [ ]
When the background information leading up to the libel trial was released to us, there was one trail of e-mails that struck me as very damning. It emerged that Barney Calman was very keen to find case histories where people had stopped taking statins and then suffered a catastrophic event, such as a heart attack [ ]
When the Mail on Sunday published their libelous articles about me on March 3rd, 2019, I was expecting it. I wasn’t expecting them to arrive on that precise date, or in that specific newspaper. But I had been waiting for something very unpleasant to appear, somewhere. Although I have to say that the level of [ ]