Day: December 14, 2010

“The cholesterol hypothesis is, perhaps, the greatest ever example of a medical hypothesis that has become too powerful to die. Too many vested interests are intertwined with it. World famous experts would look incredibly stupid if the hypothesis were to be accepted to be wrong. An entire industry of cholesterol lowering would fall apart. Hundreds […]

There are, at last count, about 9,000 charities whose avowed purpose is to “help the people of Haiti”. There are about 9,000,000 people in Haiti, so there is a Haitian charity for every one thousand Haitians. One would think that all of them would agree to each help, say, a hundred Haitians a year. If […]