"Although statin-associated myotoxicity affects compliance, quality of life of patient and discontinuation rate, yet the low incidence of myotoxicty including rhabdomyolysis and less severity of commonly occurring myopathy and myalgia do not raise doubts about the clinical efficacy and tolerability of statins."
Even the part that you quoted stated that it's rare:
"Rhabdomyolysis is a rare but idiosyncratic muscle wasting disorder of different etiologies. Statin-associated rhabdomyolysis causes skeletal muscle injury by self-perpetuating events leading to fatal irreversible renal damage through a series of biochemical reactions."
No drug is always benign. They all can have adverse effects. Numerous studies have shown that for folks with coronary artery disease using statins decreases the incidence of more coronary artery disease morbidity and mortality. If a patient starts having unexplained muscle pain or weakness, stop the statin.
And the essential difference between a food and a drug is that there is a wider safety range with the food, within which it is providing benefits without much risk of dosage related harmful side affects.
I can't back up my position with references to research articles, so you would be advised to discredit it. But I am living my life now under the conclusion that statins do more harm than good, and that while they may lower cholesterol, they do not significantly improve mortality rates, and they do long term damage to the body that is undesirable.
A few of the many dietary alternatives are much healthier, in my view, and by my choice. My current recommendations are at the bottom of my Freeper home page: