jayemcee
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- Joined
- Dec 7, 2007
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- UK
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- Bedfordshire
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- Leighton Buzzard
Hello All. I am new here and I want to introduce myself.
I have a very high cholesterol level and was prescribed statins in November 2006. Not getting answers (from my medical practitioner) to my questions about statins had caused me to research them a lot more. it is clear that they are highly toxic drugs and, in my opinion, they should not be prescribed to anyone.
To make a long story shorter, I began a global petition, that is addressed to the WHO, and it requests the WHO to initiate an impartial investigation into the risks of statins. there are now nearly 300 signatures but that is not nearly enough.
The e-petition can be found at the following URL...
http://www.gopetition.com/online/11757.html
Please read the front page and then when you look at the signatures (click on the signature link) and mouse over the hyperlinks that say 'view' on the same line as the signature name, you will see a commentary that can be up to a maximum of 500 words in support of the signature. If anyone reading this post would like to add a comment, in the form requested on the front page of the petition, I would be very much obliged.
The sad tales are heartbreaking and it is very distressing to see so many people being harmed needlessly by statins. Additionally, I have just completed an analysis of 100 commentaries. I have written the report and put it on my own website at the following URL...
http://talkingstatins.com/page4/page33/page33.html
It was written with the medical profession in mind as the target audience and so the language is not quite as user friendly and accessible, as I would have liked, but it is worth reading to the end.
The analysis revealed that 5 people out of 100 had been diagnosed with ALS. I was shocked by that number because the incidence that is quoted as a global figure is 2 cases per 100,000 people. My first thought was the highly skewed nature of the sample. It is a random sample (of unknown size) but it is self-selecting and I could not say by how much that would affect the probability of finding 5 cases of ALS in any 100 commentaries.
The math is fairly simple...
Incidence of ALS: 2:100,000
Simplified: 1:50,000
Expressed: 1 divided by (50000^5) = 3.2 × 10-24
Answer: 0.0000000000000000000000032
The number '32' with 23 preceding zeros represents the
probability of me stumbling across 5 case reports of ALS in any
random sample.
Given the probability number... I should never
have seen 5 cases collected together in my whole life, even if
I had done nothing but search for such a phenomenon for 20 hours
every day, since the day that I was born and I am 59 years old.
Probability is assumed to be a number between 0 and 1.
If we take 1 to represent the notion that we will die.
Then take 0 to represent the notion that we will live for ever.
The 23 zeros preceding 32 suggests that our chance of dying
is something much less than a merely highly improbable...
it is vanishingly small.
It now seems that neurologists are starting to discuss the possibility that statins may be a contributing factor in the causation of ALS. If anyone has a neurologist treating them, please show them this information. I will gladly make the PDF forms available to anyone who wishes to use them for any purpose whatsoever. It would be really good if the information helps the issue to get noticed and statins to be banned.
e-mail your requests for the PDF files at: webmaster(at)talkingstatins(dot)com
[Please remove the brackets, substitute the words in brackets with the correct symbols and do not put any spaces into the e-mail address]
Any and all of your comments are most welcome
Kind regards to all
jayemcee
I have a very high cholesterol level and was prescribed statins in November 2006. Not getting answers (from my medical practitioner) to my questions about statins had caused me to research them a lot more. it is clear that they are highly toxic drugs and, in my opinion, they should not be prescribed to anyone.
To make a long story shorter, I began a global petition, that is addressed to the WHO, and it requests the WHO to initiate an impartial investigation into the risks of statins. there are now nearly 300 signatures but that is not nearly enough.
The e-petition can be found at the following URL...
http://www.gopetition.com/online/11757.html
Please read the front page and then when you look at the signatures (click on the signature link) and mouse over the hyperlinks that say 'view' on the same line as the signature name, you will see a commentary that can be up to a maximum of 500 words in support of the signature. If anyone reading this post would like to add a comment, in the form requested on the front page of the petition, I would be very much obliged.
The sad tales are heartbreaking and it is very distressing to see so many people being harmed needlessly by statins. Additionally, I have just completed an analysis of 100 commentaries. I have written the report and put it on my own website at the following URL...
http://talkingstatins.com/page4/page33/page33.html
It was written with the medical profession in mind as the target audience and so the language is not quite as user friendly and accessible, as I would have liked, but it is worth reading to the end.
The analysis revealed that 5 people out of 100 had been diagnosed with ALS. I was shocked by that number because the incidence that is quoted as a global figure is 2 cases per 100,000 people. My first thought was the highly skewed nature of the sample. It is a random sample (of unknown size) but it is self-selecting and I could not say by how much that would affect the probability of finding 5 cases of ALS in any 100 commentaries.
The math is fairly simple...
Incidence of ALS: 2:100,000
Simplified: 1:50,000
Expressed: 1 divided by (50000^5) = 3.2 × 10-24
Answer: 0.0000000000000000000000032
The number '32' with 23 preceding zeros represents the
probability of me stumbling across 5 case reports of ALS in any
random sample.
Given the probability number... I should never
have seen 5 cases collected together in my whole life, even if
I had done nothing but search for such a phenomenon for 20 hours
every day, since the day that I was born and I am 59 years old.
Probability is assumed to be a number between 0 and 1.
If we take 1 to represent the notion that we will die.
Then take 0 to represent the notion that we will live for ever.
The 23 zeros preceding 32 suggests that our chance of dying
is something much less than a merely highly improbable...
it is vanishingly small.
It now seems that neurologists are starting to discuss the possibility that statins may be a contributing factor in the causation of ALS. If anyone has a neurologist treating them, please show them this information. I will gladly make the PDF forms available to anyone who wishes to use them for any purpose whatsoever. It would be really good if the information helps the issue to get noticed and statins to be banned.
e-mail your requests for the PDF files at: webmaster(at)talkingstatins(dot)com
[Please remove the brackets, substitute the words in brackets with the correct symbols and do not put any spaces into the e-mail address]
Any and all of your comments are most welcome
Kind regards to all
jayemcee