cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/1159654
Johnson & Johnson has sued four doctors who published studies citing links between talc-based personal care products and cancer, escalating an attack on scientific studies that the company alleges are inaccurate.
J&J’s subsidiary LTL Management, which absorbed the company’s talc liability in a controversial 2021 spinoff, last week filed a lawsuit in New Jersey federal court asking it to force three researchers to “retract and/or issue a correction” of a study that said asbestos-contaminated consumer talc products sometimes caused patients to develop mesothelioma.
Why sue them, and not just prove that they didn’t do what they had to pay out the largest settlement amount on record (at the time) for? Oh yeah… to make and example of people who dared to interfere with profits…