for everyone who has a side effect there are a 1000 people with none. Statins are in fact perhaps the safest drug on the market. During clincal trials they stopped giving placebo to the control group, as the benefit of the statin was so great they felt it was wrong to deny it to them....
It is one drug that does as advertised...sorry folks...far from a disaster, they will go down in history like the aspirin...a wonder drug...