But no one except the manufacturers are going to fund a really large study on breast implants. Implants probably harmed almost all the women who sued before the class action suit, he says. But, contrary to popular belief by journalists who don't know any better, people are not dropping dead in the streets from silicone implants. Journalists were too willing to make the leap from specific women with specific problems that could arguably be traced to implants, to the class as a whole. When you have a million people, you are going to have problems.
Journalists feed the climate that allows a class action suit to happen.
This doesn't mean that all 1.2 million implant recipients should get damages, Ross says, but that, since no one can predict who will be hurt, the recipients should be monitored. We have not done that. Food and Drug Administration .