Trans fats may well be dangerous. I'm not saying they are good. But we all know how statistics can be stated in a way that gives a highly misleading picture. I am reading Ravnskov's book The Cholesterol Myths, in which he demonstrates that a study showing that people with low cholesterol had a 400 times better chance of not having a heart attack than those with high cholesterol turns out to be a statistical trick. The real difference in the death rates was .03 vs. 1.3, which is a 400 percent difference, but in absolute terms was really very small.

Malloy talks about Willett in his article that began this thread.

Still abstaining from trans fat,
Sheldon