Cholesterol skeptics have their day (Fortune)

"There's a mountain of evidence that shows that people who have financial relationships with industry produce biased research and come up with biased recommendations for treatment," notes Shannon Brownlee, author of "Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer". Brownlee points out, as has been widely reported, that of the nine medical experts who devised the national cholesterol guidelines, six had received research grants, speaking honoraria, or consulting fees from at least three of the five companies that produce brand-name statins.