Dirty Doctor Dean Edell ...

[Guest guest]

We have rallied against his junkscience/quackwatch backed advice ...

here's something I posted on him years ago:

Ilena Apr 8 1997, 3:00 am

Newsgroups: alt.support.breast-implant.moderated

Date: 1997/04/08

Subject: Dirty Doctor Dean Edell . . .

Dirty Doctor Dean Edell . . .

Broadcast the facts or go to H*LL

Okay, dear friends, please join us, our fellow Doctor Dean nemesis,

of Impart, and the many of us who are working to reach him.

So

far, he poo-poos our fax-a-thons and rallies and photos and studies

and

proclaims we send him no evidence. Creative amnesia gone amuck. He

must

stop the dangerous and cruel dis-information he spews almost daily.

He has

gone so far as to say that he hopes that implanted women never get a

cent!

So, please fax the General Managers of his stations, and him at:

415/986-4716 Dirty Doctor Dean

415/362-5827 His Boss, KGO¼s General Manager, Jim Topping &

213/380-8364 Neal, KFIs Genral Manager in Los Angeles,

AM 640

Any other stations that carry him, please fax that GM too (and

please send

me the fax #)

Here is a letter sent to the above:

Dr. Dean Edell:

I¼ve had bilateral mastectomies for cancer, one of which was a

Halstad

radical, and was advised by my trusted doctor that I would

be " whole "

again if I had breast implants inserted in my chest. That was in

1979.

Well, I¼ve survived the terrible breast cancer but I¼ll never

be " whole "

again! I have had four extensive chest surgeries since then, and am

now

very disfigured, and very, very sick from the poisoning I am exposed

to

every single day from the silicone, polyurethane and other chemical

debris

throughout my body. I have " lost " my health.

I am a retired professor of health education, trained at Columbia

University and can read and understand scientific research. There

are

thousands of published studies in peer reviewed medical journals,

indicating a serious health risk here. I can also critically

evaluate the

tainted truth of recent science for hire . . . can't you?

As a medical doctor, who I presume took the Hippocratic Oath, how

can you

ignore the thousands of sick women and continue to lie about breast

implant safety? Even the FDA has not ruled them safe - how can you?

You

must stop the distortions and be accountable to your listeners and

your

profession ‚ and help right this terrible wrong!

If you would like to hear my sad story of trusting doctors and

corporate

America, both of which have victimized women for the sake of the all

mighty dollar - I'll send it along to you.

Mrs. Henrietta Farber

San Diego, CA

[Guest guest]

Great article, " CalibriMama " !

I have no doubt that someday the truth will come out. IT is so blatantly

obvious to me,

and should be to any doctor that looks at path reports of us (with autoimmune

problems)

after explant. The giant cells around the implants show an autoimmune response

- or so

my internist explained to me. SHe was surprised, too, because she had always

been told

that there is no correlation b/w implants and autoimmune illness. WRONG.

Tobacco is probably the best parallel with silicone.. Although my dad died of

mesothelioma, and after researching asbestos I became livid with the years of

cover-up.

THe first lawsuits against asbestos manufacturers were in the late 1920s!!

Yet it was not until the 70s that it became public as a health hazard. Sadly,

with implants,

we also have the additional factor of gender bias and it is more easy to blame

the victim.

Who knows how many years it will take...

> Just noticed the opitome of the Junk Science Gang in progress ...

> Dirty Doctor Dean Edell being discussed ... though haven't time to

> read what he's spouting about now ...

>

> Here's something I got published in the San Diego Business Journal

> some years ago now ... not much has changed for the better it

> appears.

>

> This pharma / med device propanganda industry ... with Dean

> their " I'm just a simple unbiased doctor facade ... is backed by

> untold billions, as it is mingled with Exxon PR money and Monsanto's

> too ... " Rush'd Limboob " is yet another of their highly visible and

> audible 'voices' ...

>

> Anyway ... here's an article where he is mentioned and there are

> several letters and events around him exposing him for years ...

>

> I was very sad to read here he see he's still on ...

>

> EXCERPT: However, on KNSD-TV, ³Dirty Doctor² Dean Edell, describes

> saline implants as ³perfectly safe, perfectly fine.² He has also

> been heard proclaiming that he hopes that ³implanted women never get

> a penny² from the makers of their defective products. Oh yes, the

> pennies.

>

> San Diego Business Journal, August 18, 1998

>

> The Silicone Smokescreen by Ilena Rosenthal

>

> The purpose of law

> is to prevent the strong from

> always having their way.

>

> Ovid, 43 BC -- 18 AD

> Ovid must be spinning in his grave!

>

> For 35 years, silicone manufacturers have been selling harmful breast

> implants -- products the FDA never approved.

>

> Following in the footsteps of their cousins --The Tobacco Barons --

> the

> mighty Dows and other silicone manufacturers have run roughshod over

> the

> legal system. They followed the winning formula: Bury all

> incriminating

> evidence. Deny its existence. Make the victims prove your product is

> not

> safe. Even then, deny it. Put profit over human life. Deny it.

> Create an

> incestuous relationship with the AMA and the FDA. Deny it. Hire

> expensive

> PR firms to sway public opinion. Purchase favorable media with

> mega-advertising dollars. Deny it. Sell sex.

>

> Above all, create a " smokescreen " to confuse and confound the issue

> and

> protect your bottom line. Repeatedly claim that " there is no

> scientific

> proof that smoking (or silicone) Œcauses¹ disease.²

>

> It¹s easy. Human beings make lousy lab rats. Tobacco has honed this

> formula beautifully for well over 50 profit-filled years. We¹ve

> really

> ³come a long way, baby.²

>

> However, it wasn¹t until late 1996 (Science, 10/18/96) after

> thousands of

> studies and tens of millions of smoking-related deaths, that medical

> science was able to identify the genetic " missing link " between

> smoking

> and lung cancer. Finally, proof. By then was there any doubt?

> Already, a

> half a million Americans were dying annually from smoking related

> diseases. ³Tobacco science² had proven what everyone has known for

> decades.

>

> Since the 60¹s, the silicone manufacturers, claiming no culpability,

> out

> of court and out of the public eye, settled thousands of cases of

> implant

> problems with ³gag² orders which kept their " dirty little secrets "

> hidden.

> When one brave woman, nn Hopkins refused to be silenced and

> took her

> case to jury, former San Diegan Dan Bolton dropped a bombshell on

> the jury

> and produced vast amounts of damning evidence from Dow¹s own files.

> Included were concealed studies showing how for years, Dow Corning

> knew,

> denied and hid the serious dangers. Dow lost all appeals, and the

> Supreme

> Court eventually upheld the verdict of fraud.

>

> One of the studies that surfaced was the Dow sponsored, 1975 ACTA

> from

> Sweden which indicated that silicone crosses the placental barrier.

> As far

> reaching as this fact is, to date, physicians nationwide continue to

> assure implanted women that it is perfectly safe to carry and nurse

> babies. Not one OB/GYN can tell me on what scientific studies these

> assurances are based. None exists.

>

> Retired professor of Health Education, Henrietta Farber is appalled

> at the

> lack of information given women today as to the true risks of

> implants. A

> survivor of double mastectomies and a series of disastrous implant

> surgeries, she is shocked that Dr. Anne Wallace, UCSD Plastic

> Surgeon,

> still quotes small, manufacturer financed studies as ³proof² of

> implant

> safety. ³Similar studies, could not have shown any correlation

> between

> smoking and cancer. Dr. Wallace ignores newer studies indicating

> that 34%

> of post mastectomy patients required additional surgery within the

> first

> five years after implantation.² Dr. Wallace, whose recent lecture

> aired on

> UCSD-TV, described saline implants as ³bags of water,² never

> mentioning

> the fungus, mold and bacterial infections known to flourish in these

> degradable silicone envelopes. Mrs. Farber added, ³Over 33,000 women

> have

> filed complaints of serious complications to the FDA about their

> saline

> implants. People believe incorrectly that they have been approved by

> the

> FDA for safety.²

>

> However, on KNSD-TV, ³Dirty Doctor² Dean Edell, describes saline

> implants as ³perfectly safe, perfectly fine.² He has also been heard

> proclaiming that he hopes that ³implanted women never get a penny²

> from

> the makers of their defective products. Oh yes, the pennies.

>

> Dow spent $191 million defending itself in the three years prior to

> declaring bankruptcy in 1992 and crashing the huge class action suit.

> Meanwhile, while safely in ³bankruptcy protection² Dow Corning

> enjoyed

> profits of $61 million in 1996, while Papa Dow Chemical earned $452

> million in the first quarter of 1997.

>

> Concurrently, here in San Diego County, there are estimated hundreds

> of

> women with no funds to have their disintegrating and ruptured

> implants

> removed. Many are too ill with multiple autoimmune diseases to care

> for

> themselves and their families.

>

> Brilliant as they were, The Dows made some early serious calculation

> errors as to ³cost benefit.² Using strategy modeled after the

> exploding

> Pinto gas tanks, as the numbers of ruptured implants surfaced, they

> hid

> the details and continued to claim falsified rupture figures of only

> 1-5%.

>

> Well-respected UCSD Radiologist, Dr. Middleton, presented

> details

> of research done on 1,200 women to the Annual Meeting of the

> Radiological

> Society of North America in November, 1995. He explained that in

> these

> studies on women implanted between 10 and 12 years, " The rupture

> rate for

> non-polyurethane-coated implants was 31%, compared to 91% for

> polyurethane-coated implants. " The latter were taken off the market

> in

> 1991 after it was discovered that the polyurethane breaks down to

> TDA, a

> known carcinogen. I¹ve heard of no women, however, who received a

> ³recall

> notice.²

>

> The infamous class action suits have been brilliant stalling devices

> to

> keep the money where the manufacturers want it. Mentor Corporation of

> Santa Barbara, threatening bankruptcy, forced all recipients to

> settle

> with a ³take it or leave it² offer. Their 1996 earnings were $23.8

> million.

>

> One of their customers, a 43 year old San Diegan woman who had had 3

> sets

> of failed implants, Mentor¹s being one, has now reluctantly been

> forced

> into receiving public assistance. She has had 12 implant related

> surgeries, has accumulated over $120,000 in medical bills, and lives

> in

> constant pain. Her total settlement from Mentor -- $379.90.

>

> ³It is unbelievable to me, that women dying, and those who will

> suffer

> agonizing pain for the remainder of their lives are barred from

> seeking

> legal recourse through our court system.² For this reason, explains

> Joan

> Huffman, Executive Director of La Jolla based Research Update, they

> have

> sponsored Assembly Bill 1609, which recently received an affirmative

> vote

> from the Senate Judiciary Committee. ³Women harmed by breast implants

> deserve access to the court system.²

>

> ³Silicone Science² like ³Tobacco Science² can rage in controversy for

> decades. And just like tobacco, the evidence is the victims and their

> failed health. They know now what science may not figure out (or

> admit to)

> for years. With insurers such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield denying

> benefits

> to ³women with a history of implants,² this is a public health

> catastrophe

> in the making. And the tax payer, as always, will have to pick up

> the tab.

>

> May Ovid rest in peace.

>

>

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>

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