Lowering cholesterol in general looks like a very bad idea to me. Be it by what we eat or by taking a drug. Our immune system depends on cholesterol to work properly. Our brain is largely made of fats and cholesterol. Some studies (David Diamond has talked about them and I have linked to them) have shown the people with the highest cholesterol lived the longest.

I wonder in another 50-100 years future doctors will look back at this time period and shake their heads at common medical practices of today as we would at blood letting and other "standard of care" of one hundred years ago. After all doctors used to smoke cigarettes' and actually make ads for TV for them.

Unless we think medical knowledge is perfect today, it will change over time. Hopefully for the better. If we think it is not going to change, then we must also think it is currently perfected. We know all we are ever going to know. I don't think so.

When something new is proven, early adopters gain the benefit. Of course a person wants to be on the leading edge, not the bleeding edge.  And there the rub comes in. Exactly where is that edge?