Column: Study finds no link between talc and ovarian cancer, but don't expect the lawsuits to stop

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A new study says talc doesn't cause ovarian cancer

, researchers examining data from more than 252,000 women have determined that there is no statistically significant link between the use of talc-based baby powder and ovarian cancer.

“The study doesn’t change the landscape in terms of the data we’re dealing with,” Lynn O’Dell, a leading plaintiffs lawyer in cases naming Johnson & Johnson, told me.More than 12,000 such lawsuits have been filed across the country in state and federal courts, blaming Johnson & Johnson’s products for ovarian cancer and mesothelioma. Some have yielded eye-catching monetary verdicts while testing the ability of juries and judges to assess the conflicting scientific presentations.

Toward the end of the great adventure movie “A High Wind in Jamaica,” a gang of pirates is sentenced to hang for a murder they didn’t commit. The oft-identified flaw in that process is that the subjects’ responses could be marred by poor recollection or the desire to pinpoint a cause of disease, which is known as “recall bias.”

 

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hiltzikm I don't believe it

hiltzikm not cool

hiltzikm They are from 'self reported ovarian cancer' women? What does that mean? Did the researchers ask the women who had ovarian cancer? If not, why? Would it have skewed the end result?!

hiltzikm Who organize and did the new study? Johnson & Johnson or one of their partners?

Funded by the Republicans & bible thumpers? Were the victims just divinely punished for not being fruitful & multiplying? Or just being vain?

You wonder what some of these juries are thinking lawsuit

I recall back in the 1970’s that women were being told not to use bath powder or talcum powder.

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