Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The cholesterol to heart disease link is one of the best attested in medical science [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]
And yet when making this very extraordinary claim, the author fails to cite any quantitative data for or against. He does not even attempt to build a qualitative argument by proposing a mechanistic theory of why cholesterol is unlikely to be causative of heart disease. Then he goes on to claim that doctors don't have hard evidence to show that statins reduce the incidence of heart disease, despite the fact that such evidence exists [5]. The post is just 10 paragraphs of fluff that boil down to 'don't trust the medico-industrial complex'
Honestly, I think that blog post is a litmus test on scientific literacy - What convinces you more, data and numbers and charts and tests of statistical significance, or rail-against-the-machine rhetoric and a few scary sounding quotes provided without the associated context?
[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/19216...
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25815993/
[3] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abst...
[4] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/01.CIR.67.4.730
[5] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2678614
[6] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32507339/
[7] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.2008.10...
[8] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18061058/
[9] https://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.03.384
[10] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00020-3
[11] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.123.030496
[12] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46686-x
[13] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002191502...
[14] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12872-021-01971-1
[15] https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jat/31/3/31_64369/_arti...