Fw: Journalistic Honesty ~ Rosemarie to Fumento

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Journalistic Honesty ~ Rosemarie to Fumento

> Ilena, feel free to post my response.

> RM

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> Dear Mr. Fumento,

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> I don't often become embroiled in opposing email viewpoints concerning

> the silicone issue, but I am making an exception here. As a journalist

> who claims specialization in science and health issues, I believe you

> have a responsibility to provide accurate information. You have

> indicated that the National Science Panel has found no evidence that

> silicone breast implants are a systemic health risk and that in the past

> half century more than 2000 studies on silicone and silicone implant

> devices have shown their safety. You have either not read the SP report

> or ignored important parts of it. On page 11-28, Dr. Betty Diamond, one

> of the panel members states:

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> " Most studies on the immune system in women with silicone breast

> implants have designs flaws such that they do not, in fact, address the

> existence of a silicone breast implant induced immunologic

> abnormality...It remains possible that we do not yet know how to

> recognize an effected subset of individuals or that we have not analyzed

> the relevant parameters of immune activation...Thus, the potential for

> silicone breast implants to exacerbate disease is an unresolved issue. "

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> You also claim that manufacturers' studies have proved the safety of

> implants. This is not true. Some manufacturers have even destroyed

> evidence which clearly indicated harmful systemic reactions. The

> manufacturers have had 35 years to prove implant safety. The fact that

> they STILL haven't done so should be enough evidence to raise a red flag

> in any thinking person's mind. There are so many errors in your

> articles on silicone implants that I can't even begin to address them in

> an email. Suffice it to say that I believe your reports are either

> poorly researched or perhaps deliberately biased. How else can you

> account for such inaccuracies?

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> You write for the ACSH and the Hudson Institute. I happened to notice

> they receive financial support from sources such as trade associations

> and corporations and that Gambino of Corning Clinical

> Laboratories is on the Board of Directors of one of them. The

> membership roster is also interesting and reads like a right-wing " Who's

> Who " (among others, the Christian Coalition and the American

> Conservative Union).

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> In closing, I must compliment you on your writing. It is very clear and

> concise. I only wish you would put your skills to better use by

> reporting the whole truth about this issue. This would take some

> courage, though. Something, sadly, few journalists seem to have.

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> Yours sincerely,

> Rosemarie

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