Statin
Drug class
Statins are a class of medications that lower cholesterol.
Statins do no such thing. Statins block the HMG-CoA pathway which produces a number of important things, cholesterol is only one of them.
This is like curing a nose bleed by putting a tourniquet around the neck. See!?!?! The nose stopped bleeding therefor it must be the correct way to address the issue.
Wait until the practitioners of (ignoring all the) evidence based medicine discover the magic of plastic bags tied over the head.