Matt Whiting wrote:
Dow-Corning settled in
the implant suits when it wasn't even at fault. That is simply wrong
and is a result of lawyers filing lots of suits that cost a fortune to
defend against. So the lawyers take a lion's share of the blame, but I
agree that judges and juries have their fair share as well along with
the plaintiffs.

Matt


Yeah, in the case of the silicone breast implant fiasco, it was a judge
in Alabama, where one of the class actions landed, who unilaterally
decided, despite a lack of medical evidence, that silicone was causing
all kinds of medical problems. That one ignoramus, who essentially set
himself up as an expert in epidemiology, was the cause of huge awards
being distributed. It took some years for the science and analysis to be
done to disprove a connection to all the systemic diseases that award
recipients claimed to have gotten from silicone.