by smallpoxgirl » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 11:15:15
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', 'I')f Holmes stripper friend says her implants are causing her problems, I'll take that over what a bunch of pointy heads in lab coats have to say.
Determining causation can be a really tricky thing. I don't doubt that she had implants, and I don't doubt that she feels sick. That doesn't necessarily equate to the implants are making her feel sick. Lots of people who don't have implants feel sick. Lots of people who do have implants don't feel sick. I know lots of people that are convinced they are sick for all sorts of wacky reasons. Just because you smelled someones perfume today and you feel sick today doesn't mean that the perfume made you sick. Unlike most of the chemicals in our air, our food, and our water, the health effects of silicone has been extensively studied for decades by hundreds of scientists and nobody can link it to anything bad happening to people. How many compounds is she exposed to everyday that haven't been as thouraghly tested?
That being said, I agree with what you said about common sense. I would not let someone cut my body open and stuff it full of plastic. The best evidence we have today is that it doesn't make people sick. Maybe tommorrow they discover it causes you to get lung cancer 30 years after you get them or something. I don't want to be the guinea pig. Being careful though is not a proof of harmfulness.