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A California judge has thrown out a $417 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson. The plaintiff claimed that she developed ovarian cancer after using J&J's talc-based products:
The ruling by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson marked the latest setback facing women and family members who accuse J&J of not adequately warning consumers about the cancer risks of its talc-based products. The decision followed a jury's decision in August to hit J&J with the largest verdict to date in the litigation, awarding California resident Eva Echeverria $70 million in compensatory damages and $347 million in punitive damages.
Nelson on Friday reversed the jury verdict and granted J&J's request for a new trial. Nelson said the August trial was underpinned by errors and insufficient evidence on both sides, culminating in excessive damages.
Mark Robinson, who represented the woman in her lawsuit, in a statement said he would file an appeal immediately. "We will continue to fight on behalf of all women who have been impacted by this dangerous product," he said.
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(Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday October 22 2017, @05:45PM (3 children)
More likely survivor bias. We forget about the wacky theories that wind up proven false. Well, most of them, some persist as wacky theories like homeopathy and chiropractic.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @09:36PM (1 child)
Sigh, not this again. Some of the claims about chiropractic medicine are overblown or outright wrong, but claiming that the specialty is on the same level as homeopathy is why nobody takes skeptics seriously.
Or are you seriously saying that having an incorrectly aligned spinal column has no possible health impacts?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2017, @12:22AM
What? This seems like a hasty generalization of a loosely-connected group of people who are joined only by the label of "skeptic".
I'm sure it does, but what does that have to do with chiropractic 'medicine'?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @12:42AM
Both work as well as placebos while some prescriptions you get are actually worse than placebos. Think about that for a moment, their results are worse than placebos. You get desperate people taking these horrible meds making them sick and they decide to switch to homeopathy and they soon start feeling much better. Now these people go on to religiously believe that things like homeopathy are the be-all-end-all of medicine and the corrupt medical industry (did you see the story about how half a bottle of eye drops is wasted because they want more profit and it's been going on since 1999?) only helps to reinforce that belief. However to be fair, for them it actually ended up being true. The problem is they apply that belief to all medicine and then prevent their kids from getting proper medical care when needed.