"There has never been an established link between silicone breast implants and any adverse health problems. The trial lawyers saw a way to make money and created a mass hysteria."
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Any woman who came down with a nasty, crippling, chronic disease and just happened to have implants was encouraged to assume the implants were the cause. Subsequent epidemiological studies proved they were no sicker as a group than the rest of the population.
Just like Agent Orange. Even the Operation "Ranch Hand" aircrews who got routinely soaked in the stuff while spraying it proved to be no worse off after several decades than their generational cohort (save for a slightly increased mortality due to years of hard-partying).
The trial lawyers don't find a problem and sue, they find a corporation (or group of corporations) with buge cash reserves and figure out a way to target one of the companies products. The lawyers become incredibly wealthy while the "victims" generally get nothing.