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38 Jennifer Washburn, “Reality Check: Can 400,000 Women Be Wrong?” Ms., March 1996, pp. 51-57. For statements from other feminists see, e.g., Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth (New York: Morrow, 1991); Leslie Laurence and Beth Weinhouse, Outrageous Practices (New York: Fawcett, 1994); Sharon Lieberman, “Business as Usual,” Women’s Review ofBooks13 (February 1996): 8-9.
39 PBS, “Frontline,” 27 February 1996.
40 Marcia Angell, “Breast Implants,” New England Journal of Medicine 326 (1992): 1695-96; Angela Bonavoglia, “Freedom of Choice,” Ms., March 1996, pp. 60-63; Shari Roan, “Data May Renew Debate over Silicone Implants,” Los Angeles Times, 26 June 1997, pp. El, 4.
41 Elinor Brecher, telephone interview with author, 1 December 1994. Among her articles see esp. “No Reason to Panic, Doctors Tell Implant Patients,” Miami Herald, 21 March 1992, p. El; “Critics of Implants on Hot Seat,” Miami Herald, 22 June 1992.
42 Elinor Brecher and Linda Monroe, “Call for Moratorium Divides Patients, Activists, Surgeons,” Miami Herald, 7 January 1992; Angell, Science on Trial, pp. 84-86.
43 Claire Spiegel, “Self-Surgery on Breast Implants Stirs Warning,” Los Angeles Times, 18 April 1992, p. A18; Jeanne A. Heaton and Nona L. Wilson, Tuning in Trouble (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995), pp. 177-82; “Talked to Death,” Home Box Office documentary, April 1997.
44 Heaton and Wilson, Tuning in Trouble.
45 Implant settlements: Barry Meier, “What Accord Would Mean for Women with Implants,” New York Times, 24 March 1994, p. B10; “Court Upholds Implant Award,” USA Today, 12 December 1994.
46 “Dow Corning Reaches Deal on Breast Implant Claims,” Reuters, 9 November 1998; Louise Brinton and S. L. Brown, “Breast Implants and Cancer,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute 89 (1997): 1341-49; Olof Nyren et al., “Risk of Connective Tissue Disease and Related Disorders Among Women with Breast Implants,” British Medical Journal316 (1998): 417-22; Cyrus Cooper, “Do Silicone Breast Implants Cause Connective Tissue Disease?” British Medical Journal 316 (1998): 403-4; Linda Cook et al., “Characteristics of Women with and without Breast Augmentation,” Journal of the American Medical Association 277 (1997): 1612—17.
47 Marcia Angell, “Do Breast Implants Cause Systemic Disease?” New England Journal of Medicine 330 (1994): 1748-49; ABC News, “Junk Science,” 7 January 1997. See also Marcia Angell, “Trial by Science,“ New York Times, 9 December 1998, p. A31.
48 Joseph Nocera, “Fatal Litigation“ (Parts I and II), Fortune, 16 October and 30 October 1995; PBS, “Frontline: Breast Implants“; Alan Abrahamson, “Payments Raise Questions over Lawyers’ Fees,” Los Angeles Times, 22 October 1995, pp. B1, 3.
49 Gina Kolata and Barry Meier, “Implant Lawsuits Create a Medical Rush to Cash In,” New York Times, 18 September 1995, pp. Al, 8. See also Jack Fisher, “Stop Scaring Women,” USA Today, 17 May 1995, p. A12.
50 Gina Kolata, “Legal System and Science Come to Differing Conclusions on Silicone,” New York Times, 16 May 1995, p. C6.
51 Laura Flanders, “Beware: P.R. Implants in News Coverage,” Extra, January 1996, pp. 8-11. For other rebukes of Kolata see Fragin, “Flawed Science at the Times”; Mark Dowie, “What’s Wrong with the New York Times’s Science Reporting?“ Nation, 6 July 1998, pp. 13-19.
52 Many perceptive critiques by Laura Flanders are collected in her book Real Majority, Media Minority (Monroe, ME: Common Courage, 1997). But see a critique of Flanders’s coverage of Gulf War Syndrome in Showalter, Hystories, pp. 138-39.
53 See Angell, Science on Trial, ch. 10; Carl Hempel, Philosophy ofNaturalScience (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966).
54 Lawrence Altman, “Drug Firm, Relenting, Allows Unflattering Study to Appear,“ New York Times, 16 April 1997, pp. A1, 12; and idem, “Experts