When the Mail on Sunday published their libelous articles about me on March 3rd, 2019, I was expecting it. I wasn’t expecting them to arrive on that precise date, or in that specific newspaper. But I had been waiting for something very unpleasant to appear, somewhere. Although I have to say that the level of malice was far greater than anticipated.
But it was entirely predictable what the main thrust of any article was going to be.
I, Dr Malcolm Kendrick, with or without other co-conspirators, would be accused of spreading misinformation about cholesterol and statins. This misinformation would have resulted in many thousands of people giving up their medication and suffering heart attacks and strokes as a result. With thousands dying.
The spectre of Andrew Wakefield and the MMR ‘scandal’ would be raised. With the words ‘far worse than’ to be found somewhere.
I make no claim to be Nostradamus 2.0. But I am capable of adding two and two to make four. I had also taken note of many other attacks around the world. Storing away the accusations made, and phrases used. So, I was well aware of what was heading my way. At least some of it. It was simply a matter of time.
Why do these attacks happen?
The hypothesis that a raised cholesterol level causes heart disease [atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD)] is possibly the single most powerful idea in medicine. If not the most powerful. It has long since reached the hallowed status of a ‘fact’. It is also entirely resistant to all contradictory evidence. To quote from the film Inception.
‘What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient… highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed – fully understood – that sticks; right in there somewhere.’
The pharmaceutical industry put their weight behind this idea very early on and shoved mightily. They recognised there were vast fortunes to be made in lowering the cholesterol levels of hundreds of millions of people, if not billions…for life. The perfect money-making machine, sorry medicine.
And lo, the search began for drugs capable of doing this. Starting with nicotinic acid, then clofibrate in 1958. The first drug capable of blocking cholesterol synthesis in the liver was Triparanol, introduced in 1959. It was rapidly withdrawn due to horrible adverse effects. Which could have acted as a warning – but didn’t.
However, it wasn’t until statins were first launched in the 1980s that the money really started to flood in. Statins became the most widely prescribed and profitable medications ever. With sales of nearly one trillion dollars. Today, there are several new cholesterol lowering drugs to keep the party going – and the money flowing.
And while there were nasty attacks on anyone who questioned the mighty ‘cholesterol hypothesis’ from early on, it wasn’t until the mid-1980s that they became truly vicious and seemingly coordinated. A strange coincidence… or perhaps not.
In parallel, a massive nutritional market grew. Low fat foods claiming to reduce cholesterol created a modern day trillion-dollar industry today. And if you dare to suggest the idea that low-fat foods do not protect against heart disease, you get much the same treatment. Which can be distilled into the following statements.
‘You are stupid and dangerous and understand nothing about science. You are also a conspiracy theorist, and your actions are killing thousands.’ Message ends.
Of course, you can never engage with anyone over the science itself. The attacks are lobbed over the castle walls, where your enemy sits safely, refusing to engage on the battlefield. ‘Just pour a little more boiling oil on their heads, if you would be so kind? Their criticism is becoming tiresome.’
Why do these attacks happen. Money, mainly.
Who got attacked first?
I think it was John Yudkin – but I know someone will almost certainly correct me on this.
In 1972 Yudkin wrote the book ‘Pure white and deadly’ where he outlined why sugar was a probable cause of heart disease, not fat(s). Even before this he had been subjected to the full boiling oil treatment. As outlined by the Telegraph newspaper in the UK:
‘The British Sugar Bureau put out a press release dismissing Yudkin’s claims as “emotional assertions” and the World Sugar Research Organisation described his book as “science fiction”. When Yudkin sued, it printed a mealy-mouthed retraction, concluding: “Professor Yudkin recognises that we do not agree with [his] views and accepts that we are entitled to express our disagreement.”
Yudkin was “uninvited” to international conferences. Others he organised were cancelled at the last minute, after pressure from sponsors, including, on one occasion, Coca-Cola. When he did contribute, papers he gave attacking sugar were omitted from publications. The British Nutrition Foundation, one of whose sponsors was Tate & Lyle, never invited anyone from Yudkin’s internationally acclaimed department to sit on its committees. Even Queen Elizabeth College reneged on a promise to allow the professor to use its research facilities when he retired in 1970 (to write Pure, White and Deadly). Only after a letter from Yudkin’s solicitor was he offered a small room in a separate building.
“Can you wonder that one sometimes becomes quite despondent about whether it is worthwhile trying to do scientific research in matters of health?” he wrote. “The results may be of great importance in helping people to avoid disease, but you then find they are being misled by propaganda designed to support commercial interests in a way you thought only existed in bad B films.”
And this “propaganda” didn’t just affect Yudkin. By the end of the Seventies, he had been so discredited that few scientists dared publish anything negative about sugar for fear of being similarly attacked. As a result, the low-fat industry, with its products laden with sugar, boomed.’1
Lesson number one. If you launch a really venomous attack on one scientist, it tends to deter all the others. Can’t think why.
Then we had Dr George Mann. At one time he was the associate director of the Framingham Study. Which remains the single most influential study on cardiovascular disease, ever. But…
But then he realised there was no relationship between dietary fat or ‘cholesteremia’ – as a high blood cholesterol was called at one time – and heart disease. He discovered this by using the conspiratorial activity called…research. He went to Africa to study the Masai. The men ate almost nothing but meat and drank blood and milk… yuk. As for heart disease, there was none.
Following these, and many other contradictory findings, he formed the Veritas society and edited the book ‘Coronary Heart Disease – the Dietary Sense and Nonsense.’ Of which I have one of the few remaining copies. It cost me fifty pounds…fifty pounds, can you believe it. The things I do for science.
At one point George Mann attempted to arrange a meeting of scientists who agreed that the diet-heart/cholesterol hypothesis was bunk. He ran into problems:
‘Many declined because they felt that participation would jeopardize their grants and perks or, sadder still, because they believe their academic positions would be threatened… when he tried to organize a conference he was told. ‘I believe you are right, and that the diet-heart hypothesis is wrong, but I cannot join you, for that would jeopardize my perks and funding.
As he went on to say: ‘Vast profits are made selling products with trumped up, dishonest health claims. Physicians are co-opted by the media and the “detail men” (salesmen) to prescribe worthless diets and dangerous drugs.’
In the book itself, Professor James McCormick stated:
‘Future generations will look back at this present preoccupation with cholesterol with the same mixture of horror and incredulity with which we now regard colonic irrigation, bleeding and purging.’
James McCormick was a GP and professor of community health at Trinity College Dublin. He was especially critical of health promotion and health screening.
As he once wrote. “Health promotion mixes the obvious and widely known with the questionable and unproven.”. Good man. He described himself, and a few colleagues, as ‘abominable no-men.’ A few brave souls who dared to question the inexorable drive to ever greater health promotion and screening.
Most people are unlikely to have heard of Mann, or McCormick, or the few other brave souls who did turn up to the conference – which was held forty years ago. But they are all heroes of mine. Shunned, de-funded and attacked – in no particular order. I know exactly how they feel.
I could give many more examples of those who have been obliterated. And I will, in later articles. But it is not just personal attacks that are used to underpin profitable ideas and keep science at bay. Scientists are paid directly to promote what are, in essence, corporate lies. I have written about this before:
‘Influential research that downplayed the role of sugar in heart disease in the 1960s was paid for by the sugar industry, according to a report released on Monday. With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Though the review is nearly 50 years old, it also showcases a decades-long battle by the sugar industry to counter the product’s negative health effects.
The findings come from documents recently found by a researcher at the University of San Francisco, which show that scientists at the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF), known today as the Sugar Association, paid scientists to do a 1967 literature review that overlooked the role of sugar in heart disease.’2
Just in case you think this sort of thing died out years ago, of course it did not. In the Sunday Times of April 23rd, 2017, this article appeared, entitled ‘Kellogg’s smothers health crisis in sugar – The cereals giant is funding studies that undermine official warnings on obesity.’ Just to choose a few paragraphs.
‘One of the food research organisations funded by Kellogg’s is the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI). Last year if funded research in the Journal Annals of Internal Medicine that said the advice to cut sugar by Public Health England and other bodies such as the World Health Organisation could not be trusted.
The study, which claimed official guidance to cut sugar was based on “low quality evidence”, stated it had been funded by an ILSI technical committee. Only by searching elsewhere for a list of committee members did it become clear that this comprised 15 food firms, including Kellogg’s, Coca-Cola and Tate and Lyle.
In 2013 Kellogg’s funded British research that concluded “regular consumption of cereals might help children stay slimmer.” The study, published in the Journal Obesity Facts relied on evidence from 14 studies. Seven of those studies were funded by Kellogg’s and five were funded by the cereal company General Mills.’
Just one small area filled with corruption, corruption and yet more corruption. It is a swamp.
Those behind the attacks
When Barney Calman wrote his articles attacking me, Zoe Harcombe and Aseem Malhotra, I wasn’t really bothered about him. I knew he was simply the patsy who had been dressed up in armour, given a shiny new sword to hold, and kicked out of the castle gate to attack us on behalf of his masters.
‘You go get them, you brave seeker of the truth. Hack away. Sever a few limbs. We may enjoy a few more glasses of red wine before joining you. Can’t tell you exactly when my dear boy. But don’t worry, we have your back. Toodlepip.’
Unfortunately for Barney, to mix metaphors, he hadn’t the slightest idea that he had turned up at a gun fight with a knife. He clearly believed this was going to be a one-sided battle where his victims would put up little or no resistance. And if we did fight back, he had the great knights of the castle to back him up if needed. [Rule One, never trust the knights].
Maybe he really thought he had truth and justice on his side. I have no idea what he thought, and I don’t much care. Whatever his motivations, he set out to do as much damage to me/us as he possibly could. His aim was to destroy. He hacked and sliced about him with gay abandon. He clearly believed himself to be invincible, and untouchable.
Unfortunately for him, one good thing about going to court is that all the discussions leading up to the articles have to be revealed to the prosecution. This would expose all the background discussions.
As Barney stated in an e-mail of the 4th of Feb 2019 to a fellow Mail on Sunday employee:
‘Can you take a look at this – we’re planning a big takedown of statin deniers.’ This comes from the media and communications list.3
‘A big takedown’… It was rather more than that. Virtually every insult known to man was brought to bear. In case you think I am exaggerating about the sheer vitriolic nastiness of what he wrote, here are some sections from the judgement.
These outline what the Judge considered the articles said about us. A distillation of their intent, if you like. This is taken directly from the Judgement itself, words unedited:
‘….the direct effect of the publication of these knowingly false statements by the Claimant(s) was (a) to cause a very large number of people not to take prescribed statin medication; and (b) thereby to expose them to a serious risk of a heart attack or stroke causing illness, disability or death;
..and in consequence, each Claimant was rightly to be condemned as a pernicious liar, for whom there was a special place in hell, whose lies, deadly propaganda, insidious fake news, scare stories, and crackpot conspiracy theories, had recklessly caused a very large number of people, like Colin, for whom the proven benefits of taking statins were demonstrated by indisputable scientific evidence, to stop taking them risking needless deaths and causing harm on a scale that was worse than the infamous MMR vaccine scandal.’
‘…each Claimant had made false public statements, knowing that they were false.’
‘Put shortly, the Articles alleged that the Claimants had a venal* motive for their lies. This was one of the aspects that made them so deserving of contempt, and a “special place in hell”.4
Yes, according to the judge, Barney Calman stated that we lied, and that we knew were lying in order to make money – our ‘venal motive’. Our pernicious lies, deadly propaganda, fake news, scare stories and crackpot conspiracy theories caused needless deaths. For which we were fully deserving of contempt and a ‘special place in hell.’ That is the Judge’s summary of the article’s intent. And if you are going to suggest that is not what the articles actually said, you could find yourself in contempt of court.
Well, I don’t know about you. But where I come from that there’s ‘fighting talk.’
So, we fought, for five and a half years. Yes, obviously I wanted to clear my name, but I was also keenly interested in something else. Which was to reveal the ‘experts’ lurking in the background. Those who I believe represent the organ grinders to Barney Calman’s dancing monkey. To mix my metaphors once more.
Fortunately, the Judge ordered that all e-mails and WhatsApp messages, indeed everything, and everyone involved, would be made available to the public – should they ever wish to read such things. Nothing here is confidential. Which means I can publish all three thousand pages, give or take, should I so wish. Praise be.
And lo, the great knights from the castle hove into view. Of course, I already knew who they would be. They included the usual suspects from the University of Oxford. Professor Sir Rory Collins and Professor Colin Baigent were two of the leading lights, baying for our blood.
This is one message that Professor Sir Rory Collins sent to Barney Calman after the articles were published.3
Dear Barney
What a pleasure to see such a hard-hitting evidence-based article on fake news related to statins … and the page 2 article with Matt Hancock’s very direct comments was an unexpected bonus.
Best wishes.
Rory
But, but…but. There was nothing in the articles that could prove to be an ‘unexpected’ bonus for Rory. Because he played a considerable role in editing the articles. Below are a couple e-mails taken from the Court Disclosures. One page among several thousand.
[I intend to publish a great deal more, to make it entirely clear that there were a group of ‘experts’ working hard in the background to destroy us.]
Yes, the great knights were brought together to terminate us, or at least terminate our reputations. And to be fair to them, they did a damned good job. In addition, they all played a significant part in editing the articles. As the Judge commented on this issue:
‘Although they were not able to dictate what Mr Calman included in the Articles, they nevertheless had (and Mr Calman allowed them to have) a very significant (and in my judgment, undue) influence over the editorial process and the terms in which the Articles were ultimately published.’
Where was the money lurking behind this? Well, Professor Sir Rory Collins and Professor Colin Baigent run the Clinical Trial Service Unit in Oxford. Which is, essentially, a contract clinical trial research organization.
It now sits under the banner of Oxford Population Health… in some complicated way, no doubt designed to throw people off the scent. The funding from Industry can be seen here 5. Under the heading ‘Independence of Research.’Hollow laugh.
I added up the funding this unit has received over the last nineteen years (although the CTSU has been around longer than that). After checking a few times, the figure I arrived at was £311,549,300.00p [See Appendix]. This is just over three hundred million pounds (~$400m).
Yes, Professor Sir Rory Colin and Professor Colin Baigent of the University of Oxford run an organisation that has received hundreds of millions in sponsorship. The vast bulk of which comes from the pharmaceutical industry, and the vast bulk of that is used to study drugs designed to lower cholesterol.
This, of course, has not had the slightest influence on anything they say or do with regard to statins, other cholesterol lowering agents, or the cholesterol hypothesis. How could anyone possibly think such a thing of the great knights in their mighty Oxfordian Castle. These eminent figures. Sir this, Professor that, Professor the other. The great and the good.
Of course, they are all desperately insistent that industry funding does not, indeed cannot, have the slightest influence on their research, or what they way. After all, no-one working there receives a penny directly from industry. Emphasis on the word, directly.
‘Research at Oxford Population Health is funded in a number of ways. Much of the funding is peer-reviewed*, which involves other experts independently assessing the Department’s planned research. Such support is provided by a number of government institutions and charities, including the Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Department of Health and Social Care, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Wellcome. In addition, funding is obtained from healthcare companies, particularly for large studies of the treatment and prevention of disease. The department’s research is conducted independently of the funding sources**.5
*How do you peer-review funding, exactly? What does this mean? It is simply gibberish made up to make all the commercial funding seem above board. This is not just pharmaceutical company money. It is ‘peer-reviewed’ pharmaceutical company money. Who did the peer-review. A bunch of hedge fund managers? Rory Collins’ bank manager?
**So, a pharmaceutical company provides forty million quid to study their drug in heart disease, and Oxford Population Health (OPH) then heads off to use their money to study another drug in cancer research? I don’t think so. And OPH have absolutely no discussions with the company about the study, at all? I have read some utter bollocks in my life. This sits very near the top.
Maybe I should hire someone to go down and find out where Professor Sir Rory Collins lives and how much his house is worth. And spy on him to see who he hangs out with and suchlike. It would only be fair, as this is what the Mail on Sunday did to me.
Here is an e-mail to Barney Calman from Mark Wood. Barney had asked Wood to find out details about me. Where I lived, how much my house was worth, where I got my income from. I include part of the -email here. [I blanked out my address, as I think that is getting a little close to home, so to speak].
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From: mark wood
Sent: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:55:43
Subject: statin deniers
Sensitivity: Normal
Hi Barney
Below are some details on your three statin deniers which I’ve been able to collate so far. Got home addresses for all three, and Company House records on any directorships they have or have previously held.
I appreciate the thrust of this is to try and discover how they are benefitting financially from their anti-statin stance…
Dr Malcolm Kendrick
DoB: 17/09/1958 (Age 60)
On his blog describes himself as ‘a GP living in Macclesfield, having graduated from Aberdeen medical school many moons ago.’
He lives in executive detached house at
Property Location:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Property Description:
Detached
Council Tax Band: G
Average Property Value:
£ 733,709
Socio – Demographic Code:
Business Class – Alpha Territory
Property Sale Date:
27/09/1996
Property Sale Price:
£ 217,000
Author of: The Great Cholesterol Con…etc. [There is more].
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No doubt what they really wanted a picture of me lolling about in my luxury apartment in St Tropez, quaffing champagne and laughing uproariously in the company of Andrew Wakefield, whilst lighting a cigar with a fifty-pound note. I wish.
My wife calculated that, given the hours I spent working in my study on research and writing, I have earned about £5/hour from book sales, and the occasional lecture. I think that may be overly optimistic.
Next. A roll call of previous attacks on the ‘statin deniers.’ Then, what should we do about the ever-increasing corruption of medical research? Pitchforks at the ready. Burning torches will be provided to all those who turn up.
3: KINGS BENCH DIVISION IN THE HIGH COURT Claim Nos. QB-2020-000799 QB-2020-000801
4: Neutral Citation Number: [2024] EWHC 1523 (KB) Case No: QB-2020-000799 QB-2020-000801
5: https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/about/independence-of-research
APPENDIX ONE – FUNDING
Received by the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, since 2005
ACE trial of acarbose (2008-2017)
Bayer: £135K *
ASCEND trial of aspirin and fish oils (2004-2017)
Abbott/Solvay/Mylan: £2.1M plus drug supply Bayer: £1.8M plus drug supply
ASCEND PLUS (2021 – ongoing)
Novo Nordisk A/S: £39.4M
Assessing the potential for SenseCam to fight the current global health crises of increasing obesity and physical inactivity (2010-2013)
Microsoft: £69K
ATLAS trial of tamoxifen duration (1997-2018)
AstraZeneca: £1.0M plus drug supply
BEST-D pilot trial of vitamin D (2012-2014)
Tishcon: free drug supply only
Big Data Institute (2018-2021)
Novartis Pharma AG Switzerland: £272K
Can wearables improve the prediction of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer in UK Biobank? (2022-25)
Swiss Reinsurance Company: £645K
China Kadoorie Biobank (2002-ongoing)
AstraZeneca: $300K
Bayer AG: £300K
GlaxoSmithKline: £3.6M
Merck: £200K
Novo Nordisk A/S: £341k
Development of digital biomarkers for dementia (2016-2022)
Eli Lilly and Company USA: £600K
Development of digital biomarkers for dementia (2016-2022)
Roche: £600K
Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Treatment with Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation a Randomised Controlled Trial (2018-2020)
St Jude Medical Europe Inc: £52K
Doctor Referral of Overweight People to Low Energy Treatments (2015-2020)
Cambridge Weight Plan Ltd: £35K
DYNAMIC CONSENT USCF (2015-17)
Oxford University Innovation Ltd: £28K
Economic burden of malignant neoplasms in the EU (2011-2012)
Pfizer: £36.5K
Elinogrel feasibility trial (2010-2011)
Novartis: £500K
EMPA-KIDNEY (2017-ongoing)
Boehringer Ingelheim: £106.3M
Establishing Fuwai-Oxford research centre (2010-ongoing)
Merck: £1.1M
Estimating acceptable non-inferiority margins for antibiotic stewardship interventions using discrete choice experiments (2021-2023)
Mars Petcare UK: £25k
EXSCEL trial of exenatide (2009-2017)
Amylin: £473K *
FOXFIRE trial of chemotherapy with or without radioembolisation for bowel cancer that has spread to the liver (2009-2017)
Sirtex: £228K *
Genomic Data Working Group (2020-2025)
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc: £107K
Heart Protection Study follow-up studies (2003-2010)
Merck: £1.2M
GlaxoSmithKline: $400K
Liposcience: £50K
HPS2-THRIVE trial of niacin/laropiprant (2005-2015)
Merck: £53M plus drug supply
HPS3/TIMI55-REVEAL trial of anacetrapib (2010-2022)
Merck: £108M plus drug supply
HPS 4/TIMI 65 – ORION-4 (2017-ongoing)
Novartis Pharma AG Switzerland: £73.7M
HPS 5/ORION-17 (2020-ongoing)
Novartis Pharma AG Switzerland: £1M
Integration of medical imaging and genetic data using machine learning for identification of micro and macro vascular disease targets (2021 – ongoing)
Novo Nordisk A/S: £1.2M
Large-scale multi-omics assays in China Kadoorie Biobank (2020 – 2023)
Bayer AG: £1.58M
LENS trial in Non-proliferative retinopathy in Scotland (2016-2022)
Mylan: free drug supply only
MaatHRI Project (Ultromics) (2018-2022)
Ultromics Limited: £79K
Measuring sleep characteristics using machine learning in wearable datasets (2020-2023)
Novo Nordisk A/S: £135K
Mexico City Prospective Study (2021 – ongoing)
AstraZeneca UK Ltd: £1.81M
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc: £1.78M
NAVIGATOR trial health economics analysis (2013-2014)
Novartis: £15K *
Next generation sequencing analysis – a clinical study (2011-2014)
Life Technologies: £125K *
Non-invasive rapid assessment of liver disease using magnetic resonance (2016-2019)
Perspectum Diagnostics: £273K *
Novo-Nordisk Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme (2021-2023)
Novo Nordisk A/S: £221.3K
Observational study of a multi-cancer early detection test (2021-2023)
Grail Bio UK Ltd: £101k
Oxford-Janssen Human Genomics Fellowship Programme (2020 – ongoing)
Janssen Biotech: 1.22M
Oxford Participation & Activities Questionnaire (Ox-PAQ) Phase 2 Study (2014-2017)
Actelion: £58K
OxPod (2021-27)
Podium Analytics: £75K
Pandemic Science Institute Investigator Allowance (2022-23)
AstraZeneca UK Ltd £5k
Pharmacogenomic analysis of the Heart Protection Study using a CAD polygenic risk score (2020 – 2025)
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc: £143K
PROCARDIS genetic study (1998-2011)
AstraZeneca: £1.7M
SEARCH trial of simvastatin dose (1997-2010)
Merck: £22.7M plus drug supply
SHARP trial of simvasatin/ezetimibe (2002-2013)
Merck/Schering: £40M plus drug supply
SHARP3 (2022-23)
Boehringer Ingelheim: £1.8M
Small open reading frames in drug discovery: from genetics to mechanisms to new therapies (2022-24)
Novo Nordisk A/S: £49K
STICS trial of rosuvastatin (2011-2014)
AstraZeneca: $100K
TECOS Trial Evaluating Cardiovascular Outcomes with Sitagliptin (2008–2022)
Merck & Co Inc: £140k *
Therapies for Influenza (2019-23)
Oxon Epidemiology Limited: £77K
The Transthyretin (ATTR) Amyloidosis Questionnaire (ATTRAQ) (2020-2022)
Pfizer: £147K
Thrombotic Microangiopathy associated Pregnancy Acute Kidney Injury in the United Kingdom: Incidence, Outcomes and Risk Factors (2021 – 2022)
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc: £32K
UK-HARP-III pilot study of LCZ696 (2013–2018)
Novartis: £2.6M
Using data from wearable devices to identify novel targets for cardiometabolic disease (obesity, T2DM, NAFLD, & heart failure) (2021 – 2024)
Novo Nordisk A/S: 1.25M
Using Whole Genome Sequencing Datasets to Identify Novel Disease Genes and Mechanisms (2020 – 2022)
GlaxoSmithKline Research & Development £359K
3-C trial of transplant rejection (2009-2017)
Pfizer: £530K
Novartis: £350K
* Funds received by the department’s Health Economics Research Centre for trials led by other Oxford University departments or Institutions.
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick 
Glad you are vindicated and hopefully compensated. You saved me from statins directly and PPIs indirectly. Am now self managing my Prostate Cancer treatment with Ivermectin, Fenbendazole and supplements washed down with Soursop tea alongside radiotherapy. Unafraid to challenge NHS Standard of care. Thank you.
my husband is taking IVM and FenBen for recent bladder cancer diagnosis. In 4 weeks there were insignificant cancer cells pathology and he’s been referred back to his urologist for 3 to 6 month scans. No oncologist needed at the moment.
Brilliant!!
So very happy to see you posting again and looking forward to many more. Thank you thank you thank you for all you’ve been through to take these bastards down or at least put them on very strict notice. Excuse the language but what else can one call them?
I hope you write another book to expose all of this further… and it’s worthy of a film.
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Malcolm…
Happy to be your film agent… :-)!!!
Payback time. A long time coming but now it’s here and you need to make the most of it, for all our sakes. Can’t wait to see the next episodes.
Best news ever, I admire your bravery and persistence. Kind regards Linda Sent from my iPhone
the appalling politics of envy yoj have a nice house you must have dubious money access. Both of you should be honoured forservices to the world knowledge let alone their health. The truth will out as we see with the persistance of Tommy Robinson’s film Silenced . Our governments and their siddkicks do not tell the TRUTH. Congratulations on your justified win, what a waste of your time and money to get there. Good health.
Suggestion….
Role reversal time… concerning the following
Let some one do some research (pun absolutely intended) concerning where Professor Sir Rory Collins. Professor Colin Baigent and Barney Calman live, how much their houses are worth, where they get their income from etc…
Let’s get some total transparency out there…
Fantastic – I appreciate that for me this was a ten minute read and for you a five and half year battle.
The significance of what you’re going to write cannot be understated.
Neither can the £5 per hour you’re making on your book work. When do you buy the second helicopter? For your third yacht, to take you to your primary secondary holiday home? 😂
HELP,
What should I do. I’m on 80mg atorvastatin after a heart attack 2 years ago.
I have read lots of research about serious effects of statins. I self reduced to 20mg a month ago but now my cholesterol has increased to nearly 5. And my Dr is not happy.
I really don’t want to take statins but I don’t want to die, I’m only 46 with 2 young children., I’m not fat, excercise 3 to 4 times a week. (Not Covid vaxxed, although wife had 2 jabs) just familial high cholesterol over 12 at heart attack. I had a stent in one artery, and drug coated balloon in another, still have minor restriction in widow maker. Advice please??
It is scary to go against the mainstream view. I could suggest you read my book The Clot Thickens. I hope there is enough information in it, to help you understand that LDL/Cholesterol is a benign substance that is the the cause, even ‘a’ cause of cardiovascular disease. You may want to think about a Coronary Artery Calcium scan (CAC scan). This is a good test to show if you have plaques in your arteries. If not, you have nothing to worry about. If so, then you need to look at why this may be. [Bear in mind that statins increased artery calcification, so this is a confounding factor]
Just to point a small typo: “LDL/Cholesterol is a benign substance that is the the cause” should presumably be “LDL/Cholesterol is a benign substance that is not the cause”.
Also well done. And, of course, thank you.
Thanks very much for your work. You saved myself and my wife from being on statins these last few years. You opened our eyes to other scams in the medical world and potential side effects of their treatments.
You are my hero, you and Gary and Nina, Noakes and Unwin, Eades, Phinney and Volek. etc etc Now please read Disappearing Illusions when you have the time….it’ll knock your socks off Kind Regards and Love and many thanks. Sue Ferrari I know Michael Eades – the Arrow– is a friend of yours, save the world one step at a time. ________________________________
Cannot find the book, “Disappearing Illusions,” but I highly recommend this one,
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History by Suzanne Humphries | Goodreads.
I have no financial interest whatsoever in recommending that fine work.
It’s called “Dissolving Illusions” by Dr Suzanne Humphries. Well worth reading!!
Thank you for what you do. My father died from ALS in 2016 and I’m certain this was caused by the high dose statins he had been on for 9 years. As a doctor I felt awful that my profession was responsible for his death. So I thank you for speaking out against statins.
Kind regards,
Rachel Brown
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“I could give many more examples of those who have been obliterated. And I will, in later articles.”Looking forward to them, fine SIr! Words cannot express my admiration for you and people like you.
I see Dr. K is still missing from Wikipedia.
Every time I visit Wikipedia and see one of their silly begging messages flash up, I remember their treatment of Dr Kendrick… Craig Murray… Julian Assange… and many others.
And I laugh.
I wouldn’t throw them an anvil if they were drowning.
Wikipedia is run by the national security state.
Correction…
The propaganda arm of the Deep State…
“Anvil” hahaha Love it!
Kendrick’s article was deleted from Wikipedia because there were no reliable sources on it. Wikipedia is built on reliable sources. Articles with little to no sources are deleted per policy.
There was no conspiracy to delete his article. If you check the Wikipedia Low-Carb template, there are currently dozens of well sourced articles for low-carb pioneers
In fact there are over 70 low-carb authors and physicians listed. It’s possible that Kendrick’s article could be recreated if reliable references are found.
BTW, the original user who submitted Kendrick’s article was doxxed and harassed by Kendrick’s followers and threatened will all kinds of horrible things back in 2018. He had to close his account and abandon Wikipedia. Of course there is no coverage of that by Kendrick because he always has to play the victim. The true story of a low-carb mob harassing an innocent Wikipedia would not be covered here!
The list of acceptable sources is carefully curated and highly biased, along the lines of NewsGuard with its acceptable lists for advertisers, the Trusted News Initiative, and other recent metastases of the Censorship Industrial Complex.
While I agree that it would not be unreasonable for Wikipedia to have some guidelines for choosing citations, as I said the current list is highly biased.
someone please send this to Wes Streeting
Malcom you inspire us all to stay strong to our principles and never give in to authoritative and active suppression.
Very scary stuff Mal. What are they planning to do with the personal info?
I have been a massive fan of your work for some years now. Long term high dose statins nearly destroyed my mum’s liver health, and yet every time she has her annual medical review (in her 80s now) she receives a follow-up call from the Pharmacist to recommend statins to lower her cholesterol. Which she politely declines. It’s bonkers and so disheartening. I applaud you from every cell of my being for standing up for what you ‘know’ in the face of such an overwhelming (and highly funded) bandwagon. I sincerely trust that you just shot off a couple of its wheels…. Hope so! You are amazing, inspirational, and I am happy beyond belief that you now have the legal backing to stand up and keep telling us all what is real. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!! xx
My father was a GP in London when John Yudkins book came out – he thought it was the most important book around and we were all reminded of the lessons of it on a regular basis! A great man and, as you say, probably the first ‘ghosted’ scientist.
I have the pdf on computer, but noticed in Google Books it’s stated as “Fiction”…had to laugh!
Keep up the great work Dr. Kendrick, the world would be a poorer place without it.
Is the pdf of Pure, White and Deadly readily available? If so, could you provide a link? Thank you.
just Google, as there are a number of pdfs.
If you want to find a book in PDF then simply type the title followed by the letters PDF…
i.e….Pure, White and Deadly pdf…… I use startpage as my search engine, no censoring!
As well as being right about everything, Dr Yudkin was a lovely honest, modest, kindly man – a lot like our Dr Kendrick.
I shall never forgive Ancel Keys for the murderous hatchet job he did on Dr Yudkin – a man who was immensely his superior in every way. Keys was a nasty selfish, dishonest American self-promoter. Probably a sociopath if the truth were known.
These ‘names’ named is long overdue. I thought the castle metaphor and the knights to be a great illustration of how the ‘money men’ guard their source of ‘income’, i.e, their ‘one size fits all’ drugs to combat the ‘demon’ cholesterol. ( plus their ‘one size fits all’ jabs to eradicate something named covid 19, only it didn’t ‘eradicate’ the virus, more like harmed recipients. The legend moved from ‘stops transmission’, to prevents hospitalisation and even death). ‘The Citadel’ ( pub 1937)- A J Cronin ….one doctor’s journey in to the murky world of unethical pharma promotions to the realisation that its corrupt practices did not serve the Hippocratic Oath he had taken. He became a ‘society doctor’, moving in monied circles, temporarily selling out. These days, money really seems to rule the roost, vast quantities of it, unamagined in Cronin’s time. Money gets people to sing from the same discordant hymn sheet, advocating profit and perfidious claims re, eg, the benefit of statins. Reading The Citadel awakened my own curiosity about ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ medical practices/ interventions. I came across your research via an Article many years ago in the Daily Mail! and reference to ‘The Great Cholesterol Con’. It impressed on me the importance of not considering one natural product of the body in isolation, which is how pharma approached/ is approaching it. How desperate were they to ‘dig the dirt’, financial or otherwise by checking out your address! No shame have these pharma shills. It’s as if they have been granted a licence to kill the reputations of those who care enough about people to do ‘un-monied’ research. Many are grateful you and Zoe Harcombe did not bow under the pressure, defending your research and reputations as arrows were fired to disable both.
The new detail about conspiracy with Collins/Baigent is perhaps unsurprising. Having only seen your summary and the previous digests, and knowing something of the background of Collins’ refusal to release raw data in the past for independent analysis, I think there is sufficient concern to warrant a referral to the General Medical Council for professional misconduct. I note that Baigent has relinquished his registration, otherwise I would have suggested referring both. I am happy to make such a submission. Let me know (my email address is on your circulation list).
“I think there is sufficient concern to warrant a referral to the General Medical Council for professional misconduct.”…
Where do we sign the petition?
Dear Dr. Kendrick,
Thank you so much for having the courage and integrity to fight back against Big Pharma’s lies. I have printed out your article, because so many people are still hoodwinked into believing the medical profession acts in the best interests of patients. Years ago I worked as a lowly part time medical secretary in a large NHS hospital in Enfield, North London. What I learnt during my five years there was more than sufficient to put me off allopathic medicine for good (except perhaps in a dire emergency, such as an RTA). It was the most significant learning experienced of my life. I have since gone on to work with autistic children, and so was aware of the link between vaccines and autism.
When the plandemic came along in 2020, I knew enough to avoid taking these gene therapies, but I was unable to educate friends and neighbours (I am an elderly widow, all my close relatives are dead, except for my two sons who live in the USA now). It’s a hard row to hoe! So I appreciate the pain of the unwarranted abuse to which you and your colleagues have been subjected. I am so grateful that there are brave people like you speaking out, willing to risk their careers – and even their lives – to tell the truth. You know who they are, better not to name them.
I hold the hope that the truth will reach the general public soon, and that the good doctors such as yourself can pave the way for the eradication of Big Pharma with its evil tentacles in our once-respected institutions, and bring us back to an* emphasis on wellness* through proper nutrition, exercise, stress reduction, and community.
You have the gratitude of myself and so many others – thank you for putting up such a good fight 💪. I do financially support the work of some of the brave doctors, but it’s nothing compared to the deep pockets of Big Pharma. The deeply insulting thing is to know that we taxpayers ultimately pay for this massive deception of our once trusted institutions – including the the BBC, which spawned worldwide the “Trusted News Initiative” – money that was used to fund worldwide censorship of vaccine harms.
My sincere thanks, and all good wishes to you and your brave colleagues, Dee Cope, Cornwall
Breaking news…
the “Trusted News Initiative” has had a make over…
It’s now called the the “Distrusted News Initiative”…
I purchased your book “The Clot Thickens”. Thank you for a great book Dr Kendrick!
Thank you also for this shocking article! I’m almost overwhelmed and certainly disgusted about what has happened to worldwide public health, medicine and research.
I suffered from extensive bilateral pulmonary embolii after Covid in February 2023. It’s been very difficult for me, trying to make objective an decision regarding my secondary treatment. Where to go from here, I have no idea but will continue to follow you, Dr Mulhotra and Zoe Harcombe and other enlightened doctors.
Thank you again!
For post Covid problems, might I suggest contacting the FLCCC, who provide free information
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=FLCCC&ia=web
FLCCC – IMO very good, well worth a visit.
All of Dr. K’s books are well worth reading, and entertaining to boot. Worth purchasing if you want to support his luxurious lifestyle.
Rory Collins, colour me surprised. The very same professor who denies statin muscle aches but patents a device to alleviate muscles aches caused by statins. 🐍
The corrupt circular money system working as designed… 🤬🤬🤬
Thank you for fighting the good fight on behalf of truth and integrity. Lang may yer lum reek.
Your dry sense of humour is admirable.
Cheers
A long awaited win, but you both won! You also hit them where it hurt the most, their egos and their pockets. Hurrah for putting the just back into justice and for upholding honesty purely through your resilience and determination. We all thank you.
We do indeed – you are certainly speaking for me, Corinna ! 🙂
Thank you so very much for your consistent hard work. GPs are forever trying to force statins down my neck……. I am just not having it. Being an extremely healthy, fit woman in her 60s, and read endless information on cholesterol and statins, I am not one of the brainwashed!
thank you again for your tireless work.
please keep going to inform we free thinkers!
If they keep pushing Statins on you, you should bring Dr. Kendrick’s book (A statin nation : damaging millions in a brave new post-health world) with you on your next visit and ask your Doctor did they ever read the book…
As a retired lawyer I kind of understand the process you’ve been through, although cannot imagine the grief and pain you have endured. So, thank you for hanging on in there to get this result. I look forward to reading more about the evidence and names you uncovered on in the course of the proceedings!
All in all, this is a damning indictment of Big Pharma and the institutions, including the government, which seem to be controlled by it.
I fear that the Covid vaccine has resulted in the same appalling ‘cover up’ but we are all still encouraged to take the boosters. No, thank you! But the big flashing red warning sign for Covid vaccines was the blanket indemnity from liability that Big Pharma got before distribution. Quickly followed by the change in the definition of the word ‘vaccine’ to allow it to cover mRNA injections.
“But the big flashing red warning sign for Covid vaccines was the blanket indemnity from liability that Big Pharma got before distribution”
That was the follow the money moment for me…
Lots pf profits for me…
Lots of injuries for thee…
Also I had read this book years earlier before DIVOC-91 arrived…
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844/ref=sr_1_1?
Congratulations, I believe statins do a lot of harm. I recently moved house and my new doctor asked me to go in for a health check, told me cholesterol level was 9 and tried to issue statins. I boldly refused them so the practise got the doctor to call me and try to convince me to take them, I kept refusing until the only way to get her off the phone was to accept the prescription. The next day they rang again to say they had had a computer malfunction and the prescription had not gone through to the chemist (God’s way of saying I shouldn’t take them?) so they had reissued. this was January so I called into Boots today to see if it was still there – they had never received it although it shows up in my NHS app as having had them. I’m saying nothing to them about this incase they start to pester me again to take them.
My husband took statins and had terrible memory problems at 48, leg pains, snapped his achilles – which his surgeon told him was caused by statins. He was a nightmare so I convinced him to go back and ask for something else or not take them. They put him on fibrates, and while he has improved I still don’t think he should take these, but he is one of the few people you recommend should take them – if they have been diagnosed with heart disease.
So I try to convince all my female friends to stay off them, but I suspect they think I’m mad, but I’m the healthiest of them all. I’m now 66 and only ever take the odd thing for indigestion.
Keep up the good work and I honestly think you should get your books back on sale to discredit these companies for feeding us poison and save the NHS millions in prescriptions.
Paula
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Paula
” … if they have been diagnosed with heart disease.”
Please look up the data; the benefit as far as I can ascertain is marginal.
i guess the next step is to destroy all the protagonists that were behind this. They are the ones causing death and destruction!
I can only reiterate all that everyone else has said with a huge heartfelt thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for us ‘the little people’ who cannot make a difference on our own. You genuinely deserve a medal. I pray and hope that you will become recognised as one of our (unsung for too long) heroes, which you truly are. I too have been a massive fan of yours for many years and find you hugely inspiring in many, many ways. I wish you were my GP!! Any chance of you doing private consultations?
End of year is nigh…
The nominations for People of the Year 2024 are…
Zoe Harcombe, Aseem Malhotra and Malcolm Kendrick…
No contest there…
The nominations for Scumbags of the Year 2024 are…
Barney Calman, Rory Collins and Colin Baigent…
No contest there…
Malhotra may have seen the light and repented his earlier support for the jabs, but my gut feel is he is an opportunistic bandwagon jumper.
Did he lose his Father to the jab?
He thinks this may be a possible cause of his father’s MI.
I checked out Barney on LinkedIn because he doesn’t have a Wikipedia page
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barney-calman-1baa94154?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
I was curious to find out if he was related to Sir Kenneth Calman. Anyway it seems he has a BA in fashion promotion and over twenty years experience in journalism with Associated Newspapers, latterly as Head of Health at the Mail. There’s no wonder he got his homework checked by a couple of medics.
And did Barney check Collins’s and Baigent’s fashion sense…😄😄😄
bless you for taking
I can’t put in words the respect and admiration I feel for your determination and fortitude DR KENDRICK. You’re a shining example to anybody that wishes to go up against the big boys who treat us all as money fodder. Keep it going as I’m sure you will. BIG RESPECT !
Dear Dr Kendrick, I hope you don’t mind my drawing a parallel with the ministry of Jesus, who walked the path of suffering to proclaim the truth. That’s what you have done too. It seems to be a fact of life on Earth. Greatness awaits you. Best wishes for some peace. Richard
Thanks for fighting the good fight. It will be good to have you posting regularly again.
I know you’ve got your own, but you’re one of my heroes. I believe you’re a man of great character. That, unfortunately, is quite rare these days.
God bless you, Doc.
thank you for having the energy to fight back
Keep up the good work!
Dear Dr Malcolm, Hats off to you. It is music to my ears. I was worried about your battle and hoped for the right outcome. It must have been a tough few years. Thanks to you and your book they no longer make money from me, a relatively fit and healthy 74-year old! At my last check-up they said not taking statins could result in me dying in the next 10 years. As I said I’m 74. I referred them to your book and said I’d accept any risk. Because I have had RA since I was 35 I have been given many drugs with them often causing insidious side effects which led to even more drugs and more side effects. I have cut out most of the medication now and eat a healthy mostly organic diet, walk as much as I can and do weight training and yoga. You are a strong, stubborn, and courageous man, and I applaud you – they picked on the wrong person. You should be the one with the knighthood. Well done,Richard
In my experience, the single most powerful idea in medicine is that the blessed vaccines are the best thing that ever happened…the Church of Vaccination where no heresy is allowed.
I’m beginning to think vaccines might be the worst thing that ever happened, and the ‘Covid’ debacle is helping to bring that idea into high relief now.
Exactly what I was going to reply WRT the sacrament known as Vaccination✝️.
Did ya not know that Astra Zenica, Pfizer et al are Patron Saints of Vaccines…
😂😂😂
Dis ya miss the beatification ceremony… 😂😂😂
It is so good to hear you have been vindicated. I do worry about the toll this sort of thing takes on health.
My health improves enormously when I eat carnivore and absolutely nothing else. However, I have currently just finished a packet of giant choc buttons🤦🏻♀️ Damn those sugar weilding sheisters! Back on the wagon it is!
Sadlt, much of our world is run by those who think nothing of lying to make money; on a genocidal level. It does not matter in which area. Health, law, history. We are kept barefoot and pregnant…
Extraordinary writing and case. Thank you Malcolm and colleagues for all you do. Excellent work.
What a win! Thank you for pursuing it even at great personal cost. I’m looking forward to reading more of your books and the court case
I’ll have to stop saying congrats lest it become repetitive.
Is anyone else struck at the way this whole farrago could be viewed as a model for the great mRNA vaccines scam? I dare say their death – or, if you prefer, murder – total will exceed Statins’ achievements.
I’m old enough to remember the sciences – they were wonderful in their day whereas The Science is a conspiracy against mankind.
Woe, woe, and thrice woe.
Correction…
There is no such thing as “the science”…
there is science but the implies a definitive science whereas science is not definitive…
Why? Because science is ever evolving with our understanding of how things are connected allowing a new body of knowledge to emerge…
As Max Planck famously said “‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.’”…
In short science advances one death at a time…
Also notice as well, Max said “science” not the science
Many thanks are due to you, Zoe Harcombe and those that have supported you in the battle for the truth. The figures in the medical establishment who conspired to disseminate lies for years and made outrageous attacks against you need to be publicly shamed.
Hopefully extracts from this article will be published in the national and international press so the wider public have a grasp of the truth about statins, what you have achieved, and what you have endured to do so.
Well done – I drank a toast of oldish Scotch to celebrate your victory and wish you many more!
They are unscrupulous bastards, and even though they printed an apology, do a straw poll among any cross sections of doctors, and they still mostly believe the lipid heart hypothesis, discussing the minutiae of different levels of risk factor in varying scenarios.
Look at the effort needed just to get doctors to take low carbs seriously!
It is a long, slow, but worthwhile fight.
Remember Doctor only get about 25 hours tuition in nutrition in their 4 year college course…
Emm… I wonder why?
I’ve read every word of your article, Dr Kendrick, having started to watch the budget nonsense, your article held my interest completely so sadly I missed all the Rachel Reeves speech 😢 🤣😂 Glad you survived all the horrors to write another good book etc.
very best wishes
rosemary wellman (an interested but absolute lay person)
Dear Dr. Kendrick, Thank you for your astonishing article (lucid, hilarious, but scary) on your legal case! I was amazed and saddened to read what you have had to endure, with attacks led by these distinguished physicians and researchers — all regarding the immensely profitable but questionably effective and safe cholesterol-lowering drug industry. My best wishes to you in resolving the case in your favour.
I have huge sympathy and familiarity with what you have gone through as a result of my own many adverse experience(s) in challenging the safety and effectiveness of the childhood vaccination schedule here in the US.
Tony Mawson (former professor, Jackson State University and U of MS Medical Center, Jackson, MS – retired)
Hats off to you Doc. Have read all of your books and continue to work as a nurse 40 + years on. Have watched the narrative over heart health, health promotion etc mushroom in the Business of medicine. So many private options available once you have insurance you will be scoped and scanned until the money runs out. While public patients die waiting or Suffer poor QOL. THANK YOU.
Good to see you back, and well done. Actually my own doctor said she didn’t blame me for refusing statins, as she wouldn’t touch them with a bargepole, and she had a family history of raised cholesterol
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Reading this brought me close to tears. How did the medical world get into this state where the health of people seems way down the list of priorities. I am so thankful to you and Zoe for making this stand and helping to expose the current situation. Also very pleased to have you back communicating with all your followers. >
“How did the medical world get into this state where the health of people seems way down the list of priorities”
Simples…
Larger egos + even larger tsunami of 💷💷💷…
The Facts of Life…
Congratulations on the legal case, wish I could say justice was served.
Just another voice in support and in kind. All the best.
That cholesterol level correlates directly with longevity still comes as a suprise to folks when this is pointed out is sad.
Congratulations on taking on Goliath and winning. I will spread your article far and wide.
Congratulations, great to have the opportunity to freely reply and name and shame. Reminiscent of the 2019 film Dark Waters and the 2021 drama series Dopesick.
Dear Dr Kendrick
You’re amazing, thank you.
I have told hundreds of clients at our natural Health Clinic to look up The Great Cholesterol Con and I shall keep going. We are always terrified of being called out as Natural medicine and nutrition are dirty words- how dare we help people get better through food and natural supplements! I don’t care anymore. I’ve had enough of all the scuttling around of the money-grabbing parasites.
Hand me a pitch fork!
Well done and keep going!
Kind regards
Annabel Andrew
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There does appear to be some progress on the Cholesterol causes heart disease front.
My sister had a new doctor. She was to have a general check up/blood test etc. She is athletic/manic cyclist but she did had elevated LDA-C. During the past few years she would show me her blood results and I would assure her that her TG/HDL-C ratio put her comfortably in the metabolically healthy range . . . and with this knowledge she persistently declined the offer of statins from her old doctor. She was worried about the new-to-the-practice young doctor and asked me to prime her on what she should say to this doctor concerning cholesterol and statins. Early into the consultation the doctor said everything looked fine . . . A little surprised, my sister queried “even the high LDL?” “Oh, we don’t worry about that these days” she said “We look at the ratios”.
Your sister was lucky with her new doctor.
My usual response to someone insisting on statins is “No.”
“The hypothesis that a raised cholesterol level causes heart disease [atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD)] is possibly the single most powerful idea in medicine. If not the most powerful.”
Much as I hesitate to disagree with the good doctor, the unthinking worship of Vaccination is even more powerful.
You might be right. But I think vaccination is a broad area, encompassing many different ideas. Although the belief in the absolute bounteous glory of vaccines is certainly powerful indeed. And questioning it in any way is frowned upon.
The powerful idea of vaccination relies on the even more powerful and entrenched ‘ideas’ of viruses and germ theory.
It’s almost indescribably delightful to read your words on this, Dr Kendrick; and ditto to know how much effort those total arseholes will be going to in order to avoid them.
How rare ! – how very rare to see the goodies come out on top !!
I’ll be using this post to try to have those I know are sceptical to USE THEIR BLOODY BRAINS !!!!!
To paraphrase Mussolini: when governments and corporations get into bed together, it’s the people who get screwed. According to some, we’ve been living in a fascist state for decades.
Well yes, the corporate, security state, Il Duce would have been jealous of GCHQ
The Corrupt Circular Money System working as designed…
Pefectomundo for those at the top of the pyramid…
Congratulations on your victory over the evil empire. It’s a victory for humanity. I’m hoping you write a book and that it’s turned into a movie with possibly Tom Hanks or Brad Pitt in the lead role.
Fantastic read Malcolm and is SO good to know that you can exact a sweet and lingering revenge on these corrupt envious and gutless anonymous cowards.
Perhaps you could call yourself Ignaz Semelweiss-Kendrick in future missives?
The medical world is littered with groupthink folly’s which took years to change and then never admit to them.
Seriously well done.
Hi, Malcolm. I point out a typo, in case you want to correct it.
A comma is missing after ‘Pure’ in the first reference to Yudkin’s book:
‘Pure white and deadly’ => ‘Pure, white and deadly’.
You have your heroes, Malcolm. You are one of mine.
Please look after yourself. We all need common sense and truth-telling.
Also, remember that the supertanker takes a long time to slow and change direction – but you have already alerted the bridge and the change of direction will eventually come because of you.
Ian Comaish Ophthalmology – don’t even start me on Lucentis/Avastin!
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Make it hurt Doc. God Bless you!
Thank you for this. You’ve gone through a long, gruelling period to be vindicated but I’m grateful you have the licence to show us what lay under that big stone covering the powerful commercial interests that tried to demolish your reputation. Please keep in touch. Best wishes, Bill
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Thank you Doctor
I am humbled by your experience and so I think are we all.
Doctor,
Please pass this experience on to Robert Kennedy Jnr. (perhaps including you other posts on this topic.)
(somehow, I don’t know how, perhaps an American reader can advise what to do)
Your work and books helped me to not prescribe statins on a number of occasions.
I was also able to point many patients to your books which helped them to choose the non-statinated pathway.
Hopefully giving them a lot longer to live, untroubled by the many possibly lethal adverse effects of low cholesterol.
Please keep it up.
Keep up the good fight Doc
Let the truth be known and let the true accountable science prevail to save lives.
Surely there must be Criminal Charges pending on the people who appeared to have stalked you and invaded your private life.
Dr Kendrick; I hold you in the highest esteem for not allowing the corrupt system to break you! It might take time, but truth will prevail always.
Reading about the dominance of Big Pharma, I can’t help but question the extent of their power. Does it extend to regions beyond their usual reach, such as China or Russia/USSR?
What is the current and past research on sugar and similar topics in those “exotic” territories?
“What is the current and past research on sugar…”
Worth a read…
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-History-Sugar-Neil-Buttery/dp/1526783657/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sugar-world-corrupted-slavery-obesity/dp/1472138090/
I am a long time follower and ardent fan of the work you do, and the things you point out. There are few real heroes in this world. You are a majestic hero.
What a ride! I commend you not only for your knowledge on bravery, but for your level of persistence in meeting the dragon’s head on. I have been following the cholesterol issue since it began, and I have agreed with you all the way. As an Asian Medicine practitioner, I have been able to convince many patients to get off their cholesterol drugs, and oddly enough when they do their so-called symptoms disappear. It has been a struggle, and sometimes I wonder if it’s even worth the effort, but I will continue to battle on my end and hope you will also. Thank you for your dedication.
very many congratulations Malcolm i had the privilege of being a student at TCD under Prof james Mccormick in the 1980s a true inspiration; and his second in command was an absolute legend in terms of healthy scepticism: Dr Petr Skrabenek who sadly died young in the 90s have you read their book: “follies and Fallacies in medicine”? c. 1984 i think i have a copy if youd like to borrow it Dr Patrick Scully GP
Dr kendrick- U are so welcome back – with your trophy.
Jerome Savage
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Dear Dr Kendrick, Thank you so much for this brilliantly scripted update. What you and your colleagues have achieved is truly phenomenal! Without wanting to sound sycophantic, I’m full of admiration for your long standing battles against injustice, you certainly have grit taking on the mail and the manipulative powers behind the article. To expose the names of the bastards behind the scenes is like taking on Sauron himself, or blowing up the Borg, yes I’ve been a Star Trek watcher since 1969 😊 Thank you for being a true scientist, a very rare ‘proper’ Dr and a very decent human being. I thought the corrupt money driven world had become invincible, but you have provided a ray of hope. Best wishes, Fiona Evans
back in 2017 i first came across your name when i searched for statins and cholesterol. That was after a 17-year period of use and a femoral endarterectomy (which might have been caused / hastened by radiation of both groins). I concluded that apparently the statins were no safeguard against plaque buildup, so why should i continue? I believe back then those doubting the benefits of statins were still referred to as ‘sceptics’ rather than ‘deniers’. But, more importantly, i wanted to know more about the workings of cholesterol and what caused a plaque buildup. And then I found your blog! Your series of articles on what causes cardiovascular disease were so enlightening! They all made such sense! Our body is such a beautiful well-designed perfect system. Once you start messing with one simple aspect, all else changes. And you never know whether it is the disease or the cure that ails you. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your honesty and backbone in fighting this corruption to the end. Bless you ❤️
Brilliant. Keep going. Sent from my iPhoneAshley Slater: Copywriter Building brands with words
Ten years ago when my doctor handed me a script for statins, I went on to the web to research them. I don’t like taking a medication I know nothing about. That’s when i found this website. Dr Kendrick’s article were so sensible and clearly written that I had to believe him. As a result I have never taken a statin, thank goodness, and have learned a lot about the murkier side of the pharmaceutical industry.
Today at age 76 I am fit and healthy and take no chronic medication. For that I have to thank Dr Kendrick and other like-minded professionals who put the interests of the patient first, and who are courageous enough to go against medical orthodoxy where necessary and publish the truth as they see it.
👍 from the whistleblower….
(This site, incidentally, was block by my Sky broadband provider as being being in the War, gore, weaponry and assorted hate category. The mind boggles. ) Glad to see the judgement. I met Prof Yudkin, briefly, as a lowly clerk in the RSM unit that was making a film, aptly entitled ‘Obesity’ (starting scene – ‘oh that this too solid flesh would melt…’ spot on for 2024) back in 1969. It’s criminal what happened to him, he was a lovely, polite-to-all, positive human, a real gent.
I’ve got high cholesterol (& low triglycerides) despite being on a pescatarian, salad-rich diet since 1963. ‘Twas first picked up 25 years ago, but no-one said anything at the time, I presumed because I had a concurrent diagnosis of fibromyalgia & hypothyroidism. A blood sample during a recent asthma review was pounced on as still showing the same 7.5 level. I’m not bothered by it. A call from Neston MC admin had me back in for a re-test – I told them I wasn’t bothered by the cholesterol, to which they replied that it wasn’t for that but for thyroid function. Shock horror (or at least total nausea at their grasp of clinical ethics) to then get a text from a practice nurse whom I never seen/spoken with telling me (no right of reply!) she was starting me on ‘treatment’ with statins because of increased risk of stroke/heart attack. I’m 75, at an age when a rapid exit is more of a blessing then a curse. Apart from the aforementioned contraindicated comorbidities, I’ve also had to make superhuman efforts in the last two years to get my mobility back on track after I was re-diagnosed with a ‘crumbling spine’ (GP via phone – I suspect he was pissed, couldn’t offer anything except oxycodone & a social care referral, to which I said no). Had to diy because of total absence of NHS input – it’s not as if loss of independence in the elderly is a major issue,. So, having declared me a national insurance write-off (I’ve been registered with the practice for over 5 years – I’ve yet to get a face-to-face appointment other than my asthma review-by-nurse), they’re now trying to ‘treat’ me to additional muscle pain & wastage. I’ve faced numerous potential heart attack/stroke inducing events over the past 25 years, including 10 years of single-handed dementia care up to my husband’s death last year. The way they’ve tried to push statins on me (& presumably other elderly) is vomit-making.
Shockingly good read. 👍
Congratulations and thanks for fighting back. Cases like this can take a toll on a man’s personal well being. Fighting these bullies is very important.
I am confused to why you sued people. Obviously you do not believe in free speech. Barney Calman wrote an opinion piece. Is it illegal now to express opinions?
Malcolm Kendrick sounds like the sort of guy who refuses to accept any critical opinions about himself and will threaten anyway with a lawsuit. One of the reasons human beings are so shite these-days is because they try and sue people all of the time.
Barney is a good man, I think you should leave him alone!
Did you even read the article? Calman libelled them in a hit piece, not free speech. Kendrick has saved lives exposing the Pharma fraud. He waited patiently to clear his name from this egregious slander.
So Generally interested reader if a national paper did a hit piece on you and you could see elements in it that were slanted and wrong then you’d just sit back an take it and not protect your public reputation?
Please respond.
Also, yes we allow people to write opinion pieces but we have laws of slander and libel which allows a redress process against people who are targeted by media organisations…
“Barney is a good man…”
Define “good” and provide evidence of this “good”.
@Malcolm Kendrick
Did Barney’s articles ever mention Collins and Baigent explicitly as sources of his criticism?
Please advise if you can.
In the judgement it was made clear that this was not an opinion piece.
Thanks for the clarification Doctor Kendrick 👍
Im assuming U posted this for fun – to trigger outrage.
Generally interested reader,
I quote you “I am confused …”
I couldn’t agree more – IMO you appear to be totally and completely confused.
May I suggest an alternative, apologise and quietly withdraw.
As Sir Rory Collins has been knighted – see here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Collins#Awards_and_honours
Why has he not been nominated to be stripped of his knighthood?
As for Professor Colin Baigent why has he not been investigated by Oxford University for potential professional and ethical violations?
Let me guess why not…
Old Boys Club anyone?
Regarding Kendrick’s lawsuit I cannot find the final judgement online anywhere, I would like to read it.
If there was no final judgement, was this lawsuit settled out of court? The case has almost no media exposure.
In UK law the preliminary judgement converts into a final judgment after the expiration of a reasonable period of time
https://www.5rb.com/news/harcombe-kendrick-preliminary-trial-judgment/
The Defendants’ defence of honest opinion was thrown out. Malcolm Kendrick won the lawsuit. It would be interesting to know how much in damages ££ they had to pay him.
“The case has almost no media exposure”.
Standard Operating Procedure. If you cannot prevent someone from saying things, fall back on pretending they were never said.
Not surprised
Your book helped me avoid statins and low fat foods.
Your blog helped me avoid covid vaccines and helped me research supplements.
PS. Not been ill despite regular use of London’s tubes and buses.
Just trying to break through wordpress’s firewall
“I think it was John Yudkin – but I know someone will almost certainly correct me on this.”
It may have been Richard Mackarness. He authored a book in 1958 ” Eat Fat and Grow Slim“. Ancel Keys attacked Mackarness.
See pages 80-81 of Keys book “Eat Well and Stay Well”, he attacked Mackarness by claiming he is not a medical scientist.
https://archive.org/details/eat_well_stay_well/page/n47/mode/2up