REVEALED: TRUTH ABOUT THE THREE ‘EXPERTS’ WHO SAY DON’T TAKE STATINS

SO WHO are these highly influential sceptics defying years of robust research on statins?

Dr Aseem Malhotra’s website says he is an ‘honorary consultant’ at both Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey and the Lister Hospital in Stevenage.

However when The Mail on Sunday contacted Frimley, they said he did not currently work there. At the Lister, his secretary explained he was a locum – shiftworker – cardiologist who only saw patients there on a Wednesday afternoon.

Dr Malhotra, 41, offers consultations at a Harley Street clinic, charging £500 for a first consultation, and £300 for a follow-up.

His most recent book, The Pioppi Diet, was branded one of the ‘top five worst celeb diets to avoid in 2018’ by the British Dietetic Association, yet he urges blog readers to choose it over statins.

Dr Malcolm Kendrick, meanwhile, is author of five books on the statins debate, the best-read of which has sold a modest 22,000 copies.

The 60-year-old doctor is employed by East Cheshire NHS Trust and Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership.

And for £50 a year, you can become a member of The Zoë Harcombe Diet & Health Club. The Cambridge maths graduate has a PhD in public health nutrition, and regularly blogs about cholesterol and heart disease.

All three owe some, if not a large part of their status to their stance as statins deniers – and have profited from it.

Despite such strong evidence to counter their claims, they are resolute.

Have they just got too much to lose if their arguments are disproved?