References: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/health/aspirin-heart-attack-stroke.html; https://www.wsj.com/articles/partisan-science-antiscience-facts-misrepresentation-fauci-lancet-lab-leak-11633960740?mod=hp_opin_pos_4#cxrecs_s
Over the past 20-30 odd years, we’ve all been told by the “experts” that we all should take a baby aspirin everyday to help ward off heart attacks/disease. It was a magical and cheap way to promote heart health.
Guess what? Now the “experts” say we shouldn’t, not at all. In fact, the risk of serious side effects “far outweight” the supposed benefit. According to the esteemed New York Times, the king of “follow the science”
”Doctors should no longer routinely begin prescribing a daily regimen of low-dose aspirin to most people at high risk of a first heart attack or stroke, according to new draft guidelines by a U.S. panel of experts. The proposed recommendation is based on mounting evidence that the risk of serious side effects far outweighs the benefit of what was once considered a remarkably cheap weapon in the fight against heart disease.
“The U.S. panel also plans to retreat from its 2016 recommendation to take baby aspirin for the prevention of colorectal cancer, guidance that was groundbreaking at the time. The panel said more recent data had raised questions about the putative benefits for cancer, and that more research was needed.”
You should read the Wall Street Journal opinion piece cited above if you want to know what “follow the science” really means, and it does NOT mean to supinely accept what these so-called “experts” say or promote. Why? Very simply, science is a process, not an end result with a cold hard solid answer you can rely on.