Dr. Aseem Malhotra

Because, okay, let me give you one argument.

So if, and this is a hypothetical, if statins didn't have side effects,

or they were almost non-existent, I could actually say, put them in a water supply.

Because even if, you know, there is a concept in medicine, you've got to treat the many to benefit a few.

So let's just say that they save lives in, I don't know, on average, say one in 300 people are going to live longer because of statins, right?

It's a public health.

Yeah, for public health.

So, you know, put it in a water supply.

You know, um, give to 3 billion people.

We're going to, are going to have, you know, you're going to save one in 300 of those 3 billion, you know, whatever that is.

It's a lot of people.

It's a lot of people.

It's, it's, it's tens of millions of people, at least not hundreds of millions.

So, um, you could make that case, but that isn't true though.

That's just simply not true.

Yeah.

If there were no side effects.

So, so, so I am very for, you know, and that, and that is an argument that has been put forward and the issue about.

Yeah, but I'm saying that it's a public health intervention that doesn't have any downside.

But if it doesn't have any downside, that's fine.