Unorthodox thesis on LDL cholesterol from a professor at Texas A&M: http://tamunews.tamu.edu/2011/05/04/%E2%80%98bad%E2%80%99-cholesterol-not-as-bad-as-people-think-shows-texas-am-study/ If the professor is correct, the muscle-weakness side effect of statin drugs makes perfect sense. (Thanks to ‘Ian@SI’ on SI for this find.)