Matt Wridley has a brief history of how it’s not bad for you. And this is worth repeating in the context of climate “science”:
If challenged to show evidence for low-cholesterol advice, the medical and scientific profession has tended to argue from authority — by pointing to WHO guidelines or other such official compendia, and say “check the references in there”. But those references lead back to Keys and Framingham and other such dodgy dossiers. Thus does bad science get laundered into dogma. “One of the great commandments of science is ‘Mistrust arguments from authority’,” said Carl Sagan.
Similarly, mistrust people who talk about “consensus” and quote fake statistics on how many scientists believe something.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, link is fixed now.
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The link worked for me.
What about triglycerides? The last few blood tests I’ve had, my HDL and LDL numbers were more or less OK, or close to OK, but I’ve had elevated triglycerides.
Well, that’s weird because mine are almost unmeasurable.
Got a will? 😉
“…fake statistics on how many scientists believe something.”
It wouldn’t matter if the statistics about scientist beliefs were true. It wouldn’t matter if they could survey every scientist in the world and all of them agreed.
Reality doesn’t care about our beliefs. All it takes is one replicable experiment that shows our belief is wrong to make the belief wrong.
The cholesterol story is blood-boiling because the truth has been known for quite a while.
Start here: http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/the-straight-dope-on-cholesterol-part-i and go through the whole thing.