It's true that most doctors and pharmaceutical companies maintain that statins are effective. But there are plenty of statistically educated people that don't

It's true that most doctors and pharmaceutical companies maintain that statins are effective. But there are plenty of statistically educated people that don't think they have much of an effect on all-cause mortality. There are conflicting incentives here, and as usual we don't care about someone else's p value, we care about argmaxing our own utility functions.