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Jury awards $417M to woman who says she got cancer from talc in baby powder
Ars Technica ^
| 8/22/2017
| Joe Mullin
Posted on 08/23/2017 4:51:00 AM PDT by simpson96
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posted on
08/23/2017 4:51:00 AM PDT
by
simpson96
To: simpson96
I’m always surprised people use talcum powder on their babies... why take the risk?
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posted on
08/23/2017 4:55:49 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(ISIS & Taliban feel Buddha Statues express hatred toward Islam - therefore they can be destroyed.)
To: simpson96
Filthy...filthy...filthy...FILTHY lawyers.
To: Gay State Conservative
It’s an old rumor... who knows?
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posted on
08/23/2017 4:59:29 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(ISIS & Taliban feel Buddha Statues express hatred toward Islam - therefore they can be destroyed.)
To: simpson96
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:04:31 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: simpson96
Ridiculous verdict. It’ll probably be tossed.
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:06:42 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
To: simpson96
J&J will of course appeal, and in a couple of years we’ll know how it really turned out...
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:07:40 AM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
To: JimSEA
And meanwhile, the costs for everyday products will rise, basically to line lawyers’ pockets.
They might as well have a direct spigot to the consumers’ wallets.
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:10:09 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
To: Moltke
It will be at least 5 years before there is a final ruling, and this case will be tossed out on appeal.
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:10:19 AM PDT
by
WASCWatch
To: GOPJ
I was advised to use corn starch, asked that worked fine.
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:11:13 AM PDT
by
Excellence
(Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
To: simpson96
No clear link connects talcum powder to ovarian cancer. Some case-control studies, based on asking women who have ovarian cancer about their history, have found a slightly increased risk. But as the American Cancer Society notes, those kinds of studies can be biased because they rely on a person’s memory of talc use years after the fact.
Two prospective cohort studies, which don’t suffer from that type of hindsight bias, found no increased risk.(snip)
OK how in the hell can they rule it gave her cancer IF the above is correct???
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:11:30 AM PDT
by
wyowolf
(Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
To: simpson96
"Correlation does not imply causation"More likely that some other variable correlates both with use of talcum powder and the development of ovarian cancer. But scary that the lawyers convinced 9 jurors that talcum powder was directly responsible.
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:12:59 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("Gun buybacks are one of the most ineffectual public policies that have ever been invented")
Go ahead and flame me for this - nobody is worth $417M. Ya, ya, ya - life is precious and priceless. Bull crap. A person is worth what effort they put forth into society. If you’re a slug that CHOSE to not get an education or a trade, sitting around complaining how society owes you a life, no they don’t. Just because your heart is pumping and you’re breathing does not mean you have value. Potential value, yes. If you get off your butt and become worthy. /soapbox
To: wyowolf
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:14:51 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.)
To: USCG SimTech
The $347 mil was for punitive damages. To send a message. It wasn’t a reflection of value, per se.
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:16:02 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: simpson96
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:17:42 AM PDT
by
MileHi
(Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: Alas Babylon!
I read somewhere that The United States has over half of the worlds lawyers.
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:18:03 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: simpson96
From link :” Earlier versions of talcum powder sometimes contained asbestos, a known cancer-causing agent. But asbestos hasn't been present in talcum powder in the US since the 1970s.”
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:20:06 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(Message to Trump : I am not tired of winning yet. Please more winning ! Get your crap together fast!)
To: simpson96
The verdict from a “Common Core” jury?!?
To: USCG SimTech
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posted on
08/23/2017 5:21:24 AM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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