I've gained the impression the "nail on the coffin" for the SC/CAD folks has been statin trials. Because statin trials gave less CAD deaths, and lowered SC, they thought it came from lowered SC.

Of course, statins work anti-inflammatorily also, and through other mechanisms too, and even the SC/CAD correlation in the statin trials is iffy at best if analyzed critically... but hey, doesn't stop the believers.