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The Bad Science That Created the Cholesterol Con

By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. Posted March 3, 2008.


The war against cholesterol has become a profitable cottage industry. But the science behind it has more than a few gaps. (Part two in a series)
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Maggie Mahar is a fellow at The Century Foundation and the author of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much (Harper/Collins 2006).

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