Thanks for watching!! This weeks outro Song: madebyjohn.bandcamp.com/track/yesterdays-rain Have anymore scandal suggestions let me know!!

@relwalretep

Жыл бұрын

Pemberton Mill

@dadhaniasona

Жыл бұрын

Less of a scandal, but more a story about the danger of indecisiveness and lack of preparation: the story of Okawa Elementary School during the 2011 Japan tsunami

@JaydragonM

Жыл бұрын

I'm confused. Please help. I thought the silicone implants produced by PIP were solid silicone... if they aren't filled with anything, how can they "rupture?" Wouldn't they just "tear" or something?

@timwestlund3072

Жыл бұрын

The Machiarini plastic trachea scandal. He basically claimed that it was possible to create a viable trachea, that could be transplanted into patients, by putting stem cells on a piece of fancy plastic! He lied and said that he had done animal studies when he had not done any such studies. He went straight for testing it on humans. Not suprisingly, patients started dying in agony. In a great documentary by SVT, they inteviewed a doctor who said that he would rather choose the firing squad than a plastic trachea.

@paul6925

Жыл бұрын

In liking the soundtrack. I used to go to ambient nights at a local coffee shop in the 90s. Brings back memories

The punishment for this is laughable. He knowingly used non-medical silicone, leading to women's deaths for greed. I would expect at minimum a manslaughter charge. Truly disgusting that after 4 years and a small fine (small enough that he likely earnt more money while selling the dodgy implants) he'd be free.

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

It is very disgusting how little he got off with

@notproplayer3649

Жыл бұрын

That's the French justice system for ya. There were literally murderers released after one year of prison. Disgusting bunch of people, French judges, lawyers and criminals alike.

@Kalvinjj

Жыл бұрын

@@nonanamnom erm... I doubt. I would bet a woman doing the same crap would get just as little, heck if not less, than he did. It's more like corruption and/or negligence overall that is just ridiculous.

@lukekirkby5304

Жыл бұрын

That's how the justice system works. If he was a poor nobody and had killed 1 person they would throw the book at him.

@mommachupacabra

Жыл бұрын

@@lukekirkby5304 (in France) unless it was a Jewish person and he could claim insanity. This has happened repeatedly lately - some really horrific torture and violent murder cases that slipped under the radar.

Can you imagine having breast cancer, fighting that, getting a mastectomy to prevent the cancer's spread, and then the implants you get afterwards end up ALSO causing you to get cancer?? It's ridiculous how flippant people can be about the safety of others.

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

It is truly horrific

@amarissimus29

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, they've moved on from butchering cancer sufferers to butchering kids.

@themaskedtalker2171

Жыл бұрын

Yeah... My ex told me if she had breast cancer and had a double mastectomy, she told me she'd never have reconstructive implants put in for this reason alone.

@ptonpc

Жыл бұрын

Profit before honour.

@SamBrickell

Жыл бұрын

They act like that because even if they are convicted they only get a 4 year prison sentence. If he knew he could be executed for committing this crime he would not have done it and innocent women would not have died.

I had a breast reduction and my surgeon was awesome. He found a mass, removed it and sent it for testing but he never told me while I was at the hospital. I thought my surgery was routine until he told me at my check up the pathology came back and everything was fine. He said he didn't want me freaking out for a few weeks for no reason when we would just deal with whatever the pathology result was. In hindsight I am very grateful for his little deception 😊

@DoveAlexa

Жыл бұрын

Good on them, since humans kinda just grow benign lumps a lot.

@Alikaoz

Жыл бұрын

@@DoveAlexa yeah. To the point that more people die with cancer than of cancer, as some lumps grow so slowly that they won't be an issue in decades. No point in going under the knife for something that might kill you at age 130

@jennifersignsoflife1375

Жыл бұрын

This goes to the importance of doctors really knowing their patients well. When my daughter was just 9 years old she had tumor on her eye. Her surgeon asked us if we wanted him to wait for the results of the biopsy while she was still under anesthesia so he could go ahead & remove her eye if it was malignant. Because of the dangers with anesthesia with children, we told him, "Yes", but that meant we had no idea if our daughter would come out of surgery with one eye or two. It was a terrifying wait. The tumor was benign, thank God, and she recovered quickly. All patients should receive this level of care.

@katiekane5247

Жыл бұрын

I'd be mad as hell if my Dr didn't mention that but we're all different.

@shellshell942

Жыл бұрын

@@jennifersignsoflife1375 Wow that must have been terrible. I'm glad your daughter recovered. My surgeon told me he thought just by looking at it he thought it was fine and telling me wouldn't have changed anything other than cause me to freak out so he just didn't tell. Some people are just gems 🥰

My sister had the saline implants until she was diagnosed with cancer in 2018. Shortly after that the CDC came out that the same model of implants was implicated with cancer due to the lining. She died a year ago. RIP sis.

@angelachouinard4581

Жыл бұрын

Very sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing her story, people need to be made aware of these things.

@silllykitten329

Жыл бұрын

What were the brand of her implants, do you know? Sorry for your loss.

@ptonpc

Жыл бұрын

RIP

@fluffyraichu9706

Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry for your loss

@TheDragonSeer

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss. I'll pray for you and your sister.

"So you inspected the ingredients and manufacture and deemed this product safe?" TUV: "yes" "So you know that those ingredients were unsafe then?" TUV: "We didn't know what the ingredients were!" 🤔

@onijester56

Жыл бұрын

I worked in a shampoo factory (ironically because I couldn't get a job at BMS) and when there was ANY deviation from "purely smooth" in the freshly-produced shampoos the clumps were taken out, that batch was set aside, and the Quality Department I was in was tasked with finding out what the clump was. I couldn't tell you beforehand what the ingredients for that specific batch of the shampoo consisted of, but I can tell you exactly what the clumps were, and often tell you a good handful of the other ingredients after a couple tests. (Hint: almost every such clump was a chunk of soap-fats/fatty-acids that simply didn't dissolve fully.) So, TUV was either openly trying to pull some bs excuse or else admits they are incompetent.

@lit_for_20

Жыл бұрын

its still plausible that the ingredients of the silicone itself were kept a "company secret" and that TÜV only certified the plant itself, but they can be bought, and really lack competent people in certain (rural) regions, as well. in germany, your car has to be inspected by the TÜV every 2 years, and i can speak from personal experience that there are some strict but also some reeeeally dodgy "inspectors" out there. however, they generally do a pretty good job over here, and i'd say that most people would trust their kids going on a playground certified by the TÜV - they most certainly claimed that to get themselves off the hook, though. other people's experiences may vary, though, and this is just my two cents on them

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

@@onijester56 That opens question about road safety in the region. It's the TÜV that checks the cars.

@matthewmiller6068

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking!

@truegemuese

Жыл бұрын

Within Germany, the TÜV is usually pretty strict, at least with the common folk, but when it comes to foreign companies, they're more corrupt than the European Commission.

This scandal is more along the lines of "Plainly Greedy" than difficult.

@mommachupacabra

Жыл бұрын

Possibly this calls for a "Plainly Greedy" sub-channel. :)

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

I did consider doing a series just called Greed!

@TotallyNotRedneckYall

Жыл бұрын

@@PlainlyDifficult you would never run out of material 😔

@DarkZodiacZZ

Жыл бұрын

@@PlainlyDifficult There is a lot of things you can fit under that. Anything from corporate/personal greed to some stupid wartime decisions to darwin awards.

@catalintimofti1117

Жыл бұрын

@@mommachupacabra most of the shit shows he covers are plain greed

Speaking of french engineers and silicone, in the 90s Sweden was to build a tunnel through the Halland Ridge. A problem arose when the drilling caused the groundwater to leak out, creeks dried, wells were emptying and so on. The french company Rhône-Poulenc stepped in with a product that seemed to solve all the problems, Rhoca-Gil. It turned out that the Rhoca-Gil was only safe in lab tests, and out in nature cows died in the fields, crops had to be destoyed and quite a number of worker that was literally sprayed with the stuff developed cancer at a surprisingly high rate

@dominickkramer6469

Жыл бұрын

what did the rhoca-gil do ? fix the hole ? feed the cows ? water the crops ? why did workes get sprayed with it ? im confused as to what it was actually for

@Secean

Жыл бұрын

@@dominickkramer6469 The Halland Ridge, they discovered, isn't bedrock, its tightly packed gravel so the groundwater was gushing through these little openings in the tunnel walls. Rhoca-gil was supposed to plug the bigger holes and also get in to the gravel and create a seal. With all the groundwater leaking out, the silicone went into the water and it turned out it was toxic and a carcinogenic. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough =)

@dominickkramer6469

Жыл бұрын

@@Secean ahhhh gotcha thank you that makes much more sense. given this was the 90s its a shame they didnt spend the money to survey the ground better. they definitley had the means to do it... thanks for sharing !

@djkarcher1896

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like something that John should do a video about.

@NinoJoel

Жыл бұрын

I want a video from Jon on this

I worked in commercial water treatment for a few years and we always used food grade silicone lubricant when we needed to grease something in a filter housing. I would NEVER use silicone or any other product that hadn't been tested and approved for human use or consumption. A lot of our units weren't even producing drinking water and we STILL used food grade silicone, don't even want a tube of regular silicone on the truck. I find it maddening that a bunch of skilled laborers had more concern for our customer's health and safety than a multi million dollar company with real scientists on staff.

@iClone101

Жыл бұрын

It's likely that the scientists either never knew of the industrial silicone being used, or were told by higher-ups that it already had been tested by other scientists, regardless of whether the latter was actually true. Probably it was only executives who knew of the truth, who cared far more about profits than any dangers they could cause.

@nigelft

Жыл бұрын

​@Galactic Ruler That may well be the case ... As I mentioned in my post about GMP/GLP, it is the gold standard to not just be _very_ through when it comes to anything to be used in a clinical setting, not least prescription medication, but that thoroughness is backed by an equal, if not higher, level of QC, to ensure the mantra of Quality, Safety, and Efficacy, is followed, with only - very - minor deviations allowed ... If the French governmental agency failed in its duty of care, to ensure that those implants were made up of medical grade silicone (although, personally, saline is the better option, as it is less riskier ...), then that body should also be sued ...

@suchabadkitty1293

Жыл бұрын

It's absolutely disgusting, isn't it? 😡

@stardresser1

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing so. If only there were more lime you and your co workers.

@hx5525

Жыл бұрын

Isn’t silicone safe to handle? Shouldn’t technical grade be good enough for non-drinking water treatment operations?

Funny story: At a company I used to work at there was a computer in a laboratory used by various people in our group. One day this odd looking wrist support appeared near the mouse. It was quite comfortable and was a welcome relief when using the mouse for extended periods. But there was also something vaguely familiar about it. On closer examination I found a part number and after Googling the part number discovered it was a silicone breast implant! Nobody would admit to being the one who brought it in.

@SianaGearz

Жыл бұрын

There's probably bits of someone's flesh on it.

@grmpEqweer

Жыл бұрын

@@SianaGearz That would be a biohazard, and therefore disposed.

@fluttzkrieg4392

Жыл бұрын

I've seen some mouse pads for sad and lonely people that have certain drawings printed onto them and where the wrist support are, let's just say, supposed to look like breasts. I'd more disturbed seeing something like that on someone's desk.

@nenjea648

Жыл бұрын

My grandpa used to regularly do blood donation. The nurse would always make him hold something while his blood was drawn, to help maintain the position I think. Well once in those years, he realized it was one of those breast implants! A cosmetic clinic had given them away. They quickly stopped being used for that when enough people complained about having to hold a breast implant.

@biazacha

Жыл бұрын

@@nenjea648 that’s so silly, at that point it wasn’t a breast implant but a package full of silicone, not far from those stress relief toys people squish on. I swear people will find the weirdest hills to die on, waste perfectly functional solutions cause “ew, it goes in boobies!”

*Deaths* were linked to his cost-cutting and all he gets is four years and less than a million euros in fines???? Absolutely unbelievable

@suchabadkitty1293

Жыл бұрын

Laws for the rich are different than laws for the poor.

@philiplubduck6107

3 ай бұрын

The laws are the same, it’s the lawyer that finds the holes in the case and loopholes and ways to influence the jury and or judge. Poor people get the lawyer the court appoints and that lawyer is usually the lowest on the totem pool and has 50 other case to work on so you have little time with them. I had a court appointed lawyer and had less than 5 minutes before I saw the judge. Needless to say I could have got a much better deal.

"They test and certify anything you can think of." "They denied knowing what the ingredients were." What did they test then? How high it bounced when dropped?

@stuartgmk

Жыл бұрын

😱

@poindextertunes

Жыл бұрын

😂

@ZGryphon

Жыл бұрын

More likely how high the check _didn't_ bounce when cashed.

@Mightyhero777

Жыл бұрын

they tested how closely they felt like a natural woman’s breast, and that’s about it.

When he made the mistake of saying "hydrogen in implants" i had a strange mental image of exploding jugs.

@hikari_manekineko

Жыл бұрын

Ohh, the humanity!

@YukikoTsuki

Жыл бұрын

Gives a whole new meaning to "having a bombshell figure", huh?

@hirisk761

Жыл бұрын

@Yuki Tsuki underrated response 👏 👌

@paulsto6516

Жыл бұрын

@@hikari_manekineko I see what you did there.

@NinoJoel

Жыл бұрын

That would be the most absurd and funny recall in history. "Product might cause exploding boobs " Haha

As an artist I work with silicone constantly, making molds, sealant, coating and even as a glue. How someone thought this stuff would be just fine *inside* the human body escapes me. Unbelievable! This video made me appreciate my boobs even more as they are, maybe not perfect, but all mine.

@sendthis9480

Жыл бұрын

What would you think of a woman that was totally stacked…and had what were perceived as “perfect” boobs…round, firm, large…whatever… And she got implants to get some droopers? Or made them small and saggy? Or made them shaped different and spread apart far? Or made them what was perceived as “not perfect”? I think this would be interesting. I’m a dude…and not at all attracted to huge boobs…and especially not attracted to fake implants that don’t really look like real body parts. So maybe I’m a bit biased due to my own contrarian preference. However admittedly I would likely give the latter woman more validity than the Barbie boob woman….right or wrong.

@Lawofimprobability

Жыл бұрын

Medical silicone is normally non-reactive (industrial silicone has other effects) and tends to be pretty safe as long as it is intact. I (and a lot of others) assumed it was medical silicone being used.

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

There’s no such thing as “perfect boobs.” It’s entirely subjective, and a lot of men don’t find large breasts attractive anyway. A ridiculous stereotype drove many of these women to seek implants when it was completely unnecessary. Cosmetic surgery is a terrible way to treat body dysmorphia.

@VonVikoGoat

Жыл бұрын

silicone is similar to plastic in the way that both can seem extremely mundane items but have medical grade versions that are completely safe in a medical setting (when done right)

@janemiettinen5176

Жыл бұрын

@@sendthis9480 I have a friend who has naturally big boobs, shes really smart, but even other women wont take her as seriously as they should. Men can be downright grouse, even when her husband and kids are around. Shes in a weird bimbo limbo, or thats what we call it. Its really odd when total stranger feels comfortable to comment on particular part of your body, luckily shes pretty thick-skinned. And there are other “imperfections” than just size. I might lose my wamen-card for this, but Ill let you in a secret; most girls has asymmetrical boobs, the difference can be couple cup sizes, but its usually one cup or close to it. Bra shopping can be a task, I never look forward to it. When otherwise beautiful or “perfect” people opt for surgery, I find it kinda sad. Then its not about the reality anymore, its more of an self-esteem issue and no amount of surgery or other external measure can fix that. So many celebs have turned into almost monsters, its amazing. Meg Ryan comes to mind, she doesnt look like a human anymore. Im so lucky to have grown up without any major insecurities and the artist in me loves imperfections, I find them much more interesting. If we all looked flawless, life would be so boring. Just thinking about society of Barbies and Kens living in perfect little cities, driving just washed cars into their immaculate driveways gives me the willies. Much more than I expected, in fact.

My aunt died from cancer because of her implants. This is really sad and infuriating.

Wow! As a US citizen, I remember when the FDA banned silicone implants, but it actually surprises me that they got in front of the problem before the EU did, as our regulatory agencies are notoriously lax, business-friendly, and probably corrupt. It also surprises me that PIP was using industrial silicone. I knew of the problem of silicone implant leakage, but I didn't know anyone was using non-medical grade product in them. Needless to say, it seems Mas got off very easy indeed.

@Lawofimprobability

Жыл бұрын

I knew a bunch of people who assumed the FDA reaction was just American puritanism and the consumer lawsuits were assumed to be not-infrequent phenomenon of people with regret imagining problems and people tried to check to see if the complained outcomes could makes sense with medical-grade silicone implants and they didn't match. It is only now that I learned adulterated silicone was sometimes used which goes a long way to explaining the phenomenon. That amazes me since inspecting silicone production seems quite easy and high priority.

@ElectricAir42

Жыл бұрын

This is the 2nd story I’ve seen were the FDA really did it’s job well.

@misseselise3864

Жыл бұрын

the US hasn’t banned silicone implants….

@tookitogo

Жыл бұрын

The FDA is not actually lax, contrary to many people’s belief. There have been instances where the FDA blocked harmful things the rest of the world had allowed, and it’s not at all uncommon for new drugs to go on the market in Europe before USA.

@leogama3422

Жыл бұрын

It being a foreign company's product likely had an incentive for them to do their job

He fools the autorities by manufacturing two sets of implants : one for their QC, one for sale, then he let them assumed it's all sames (that's how he was able to sell his dodgy stuff) There was also a bit of corruption of course...

@Lawofimprobability

Жыл бұрын

That would explain it. I had seen reviews by people assessing risks with actual medical silicone, not the end-product so the consumer lawsuits were assumed to be a moral panic, not a reaction to adulterated ingredients. I will keep this incident in mind when considering future consumer safety allegations. That said, it seems mind-boggling that the manufacturing process wasn't sufficiently scrutinized. It seems so easy to inspect.

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

What you’ve described _is_ essentially corruption.

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

@@Lawofimprobability yup, in the end it were additives for industrial silicone that caused them more cancer, not the silicone itself. And it's surprising how often qc samples and actual retail units differ in quality.

@SianaGearz

Жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios it's a common and somewhat illegal practice where "engineering samples" get sent for certification that don't end up matching production units.

@DEtchells

Жыл бұрын

In that way, very reminiscent (or prescient) of the VW emissions scandal: Show your best (false) face when the regulators are watching, do whatever is most profitable when they aren’t. Unfortunately, the consequences here were vastly more severe than VW’s emissions cheating 😢

Four years is an insanely short jail term. Given the scope of the disaster, he should have gotten life.

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@christopheferraux2864

Жыл бұрын

there is worse in France the affair of the contaminated blood: we gave blood products contaminated by hiv to hemophiliacs only sulbalterns we were condemned Laurent Fabius prime minister of the time was involved he did not have anything like comdanation

@katiekane5247

Жыл бұрын

@@christopheferraux2864 shipped out of the USA to many countries rather than destroy all the HIV positive blood products. Clotting factors likely killed many but no one followed them to the best of my knowledge.

@darthkarl99

Жыл бұрын

@@PlainlyDifficult I'm honestly not surprised, modern justice systems are primarily concerned with preventing future harm. Him being banned from the medical field and from running a company, (combined with the level of oversight on such things making bypassing difficult), removes any future threat. Now TUV, they're a real problem that needs hammering ASAP. They're still out there doing inspections on all kinds of things and have a history of incompetence, that screams problems within the company that need a thorough investigation.

@TatsuZZmage

Жыл бұрын

This is France they had a guy stab another man in the chest a year after he was beaten in CS 1.6 with a knife, 2 years, for premeditated attempted murder.

Like so many other cases of corporations and executive responsible for the suffering, injuries and deaths of thousands of people, they get away with what is, for all intents and purposes, a slap on the wrist or a "naughty, naughty don't do that again". And the agencies responsible for protecting the public at large failing miserably due to incompetence and/or corruption. It is depressing and infuriating but thank you for bringing these often obscure or forgotten instances to light

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

Sadly true

@andy70d35

Жыл бұрын

The same thing is happening now, look into the excess deaths all over the world after a certain medical procedure over the last few years.

@DoveAlexa

Жыл бұрын

I'm thinking at this point that said protective agencies are doing exactly what they mean to.

@mimsydreams

Жыл бұрын

This is one of the reasons (besides sheer stupidity) that many distrust authorities on major health and safety concerns. Our governments do a piss-poor job at monitoring these agencies who do a piss-poor job of monitoring these companies/product manufacturers. And the piss-poor if it all is due to bribes, campaign "donations" and other kickbacks. Fast forward to the current, and you got people not getting life-saving medication because they think the manufacturers have been bribed to put 5G cancer in them. The logic is ridiculously flawed, but it comes from a place of skepticism, due to cases like these from the past. Lives often don't matter, when there's money to be made. Especially when the courts will give you a little slap on the wrist for killing hundreds or even thousands. Who watches the Watchmen? Another set of Watchmen that want to get richer too! And people wonder why anti-capitalistic views are growing.

@williebeamish5879

Жыл бұрын

@@DoveAlexa Nothing. Glorified paper shufflers.

can't imagine any other medical implant being denied a replacement when serious risks are involved

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

The fact that most of these implantations were completely unnecessary surgeries may play a role here. That they were vulnerable people who shouldn’t have been permitted to undergo such procedures ought to be a consideration.

@grmpEqweer

Жыл бұрын

@@anhedonianepiphany5588 Once you put it in, it's going to look odd if you just remove it. If you leave it, it's a time bomb.

I’ve heard so many stories of women having issues with implants- and the massive FB groups for support about it, too. It seems they almost always go wrong somehow, eventually. How horrifying to have something foreign inside of your body making you sick, it’s terrifying.

@decodavanwinkle8936

Жыл бұрын

It is but its also a choice

since you're doing French happenings, you should do the 1966 Feyzin refinery explosion that devasted a good chunk of the Lyon valley and was the first documented case of a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion).

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the suggestion!

Oh man that punishment will definitely dissuade people... 🙄🙄

Excellent video, Plainly. Just regular 100% properly made silicone implants were found to be dangerous. Even the smallest leak of the silicone was found to create massive, chronic, negative health effects in women that doctors could never explain. This was until the women got sick and tired of feeling awful, guessed it was the silicone implants and had them removed. The resulting improvement in their health was immediate and very positive but it was not easy. The absolute horror of an exploded silicone implant, degrading into a viscous plastic slime, inside of a womans chest, is a terribly unforgettable sight. Removing that mess is a very time-consuming process. By contrast, saline implants that fail, have a far lower incidence of medical complication and those implants outer casings, collapsed, have been removed easily. I am astonished and proud the FDA outlawed silicone implants in America. Jean Claude Mas used poison in his implants. I think he should have been forced to get two of his own poison breast implants installed in his own chest. Then he could reap what he sowed. Jean Claude Mas died in 2019 still under indictment for two lawsuits. It is estimated that 400,000 women have had these PIP products installed in their bodies. That should not be allowed to stand. PIP's poisonous products should all be removed, paid for by all of the financial resources of every executive who ever worked at PIP. Just like the Therac 25 Cancer treatment machine, this was all about saving a penny versus giving a damn about human life. People who do these things should be put away in prison, for the rest of their lives.

@dinoflagella4185

Жыл бұрын

I had a friend that got sick and lost a lot of weight. She was bedridden for weeks. She couldn’t keep a meal down and was constantly vomiting. I saw her one day and he her had gotten better. She lost almost 100 lbs and was really thin. She said she had her breast implants removed and her health instantly got better.

@rileyrobin2

Жыл бұрын

those horror stories about the therac 25 are gonna stick with me for a long while.

@phil4986

Жыл бұрын

@@rileyrobin2 yea, me too. makes me want to vomit even right now.

@1978garfield

Жыл бұрын

Actually the FDA has said since 2006 that silicone implants are fine and dandy. Although a number of independent reviews, including the Institute of Medicine in the United States, subsequently indicated that silicone breast implants do not cause breast cancers or any identifiable systemic diseases, on 21 March 2017, the FDA issued a statement indicating that women with breast implants have a "very low but increased risk" of getting a rare form of cancer called anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL).The cancer is associated with nine deaths, the FDA said. That's not 9 deaths per year, that's 9 deaths during the decade or so they did the study. Statistically I suspect you would be more likely to die from a car wreck on your way to the surgeons office than that cancer. Also it isn't the silicone that causes the cancer: The material inside the implant didn’t seem to affect the risk of BIA-ALCL. The FDA had information on the implant fill material in 312 BIA-ALCL cases: 186 were filled with silicone gel 126 were filled with saline (salt water). Obviously the FDA is talking about medical grade silicone here not calk, or whatever that French guy was making.

@suchabadkitty1293

Жыл бұрын

​@@rileyrobin2 Aaaah, the good ol' Therac 25. Nothing like having your CANCER treated with a nice fatal dose of RADIATION!!🤮

For killing at least one and seriously endangering thousands of people, this man got away with basically a polite slap on the wrist and a „tut-tut, that was very naughty of you!“ Unbelievable.

@suchabadkitty1293

Жыл бұрын

The laws for the rich and the poor are VERY different. 😡

You should make a video about Paolo Macchiarini, a doctor who decided to implant plastic throats in people, you can imagine what happened

As a breast cancer survivor this is really terrifying. It’s why I said no to implants. Especially given the history of various faulty implant types going back to the 1980s. No other medical device has a more troubled history than breast implants.

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

If they weren’t being applied trivially and recklessly, it’s unlikely there’d be any problems. Were implants only used in those who truly require them then the huge popular market wouldn’t exist to exploit.

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

@@debesys6306 You’ve misinterpreted my post. If they were only used as specialty surgical items for reconstruction etc. then far more scrutiny would apply, meaning these toxic cheap versions likely wouldn’t exist.

I'm enjoying the scandal series! A future medical scandal could be Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Physiomesh. I think there were two types, transvaginal and hernia repair. People were in excruciating pain, and the stories I've read suggest J&J did not properly warn doctors of risks and downplayed serious side effects seen in research trials. There was a settlement, but some lawsuits are still ongoing. I almost had an internship at Ethicon working on another mesh product, but it got suddenly cancelled in 2018 - then I learned about the lawsuits.

@pete904ni

Жыл бұрын

Oh there's a big medical scandal on the horizon alright

@Microwave_Dave

Жыл бұрын

That's a scandal deserving of a video. One of my good friends had his life destroyed due to a failed hernia repair involving Physiomesh. He's a shell of a man compared to his old capable, independent, jovial self. Constant pain and suffering, plus a bunch of new medical issues caused by the mesh fusing to his internal organs. Awful stuff. I'm sure countless women are suffering similar fates due to this PIP scandal. Heartbreaking.

@BluetheRaccoon

Жыл бұрын

The reason I have medically untreated P.O.P is that I have a connective tissue disorder already, and fear the idea of bladder mesh killing me.

The fda is one of the few agencies that are suprisingly competent. They also caught the thalidamide thing pretry early.

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

They seem to be on it in some ways

@HailAnts

Жыл бұрын

Not really. The FDA's ban on (medical grade) silicone implants was completely unnecessary and politically motivated. There has never been any conclusive evidence that they are harmful. What this French guy did is completely different..

@curiousbystander9193

Жыл бұрын

they are captured too

@Lawofimprobability

Жыл бұрын

@@HailAnts To be fair to the FDA, regulators must not just look at what a properly handled process is, they must designed regulations around common kinds of fraud. If the FDA had reason to believe the silicone manufacturing process could not be properly verified, banning implants using it does make some kind of sense. I (and others) had assumed the manufacturing process was better inspected than what it was.

@markrichards636

Жыл бұрын

Not anymore

Oh wow! I (and others) had heard of lawsuits over silicone implants alleging safety risks and dismissed them since we assumed the implants used standard medical silicone instead of industrial silicone. That explains that actual safety concerns existed with the implants, not just the surgeries.

I really liked your "forward" about the reasons people get breast implants. Much respect.

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

Yes, he deftly avoided the whimsical versus necessary discussion. BTW, it’s mostly whimsical and entirely unnecessary.

@nancyrobinson3567

Жыл бұрын

@@anhedonianepiphany5588 As are all of your inane comments 🤷🏻‍♀️

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

@@debesys6306 If you’d actually read all my comments then you would be aware that I sympathise with _all_ the recipients of these atrocious implants. My point is that the vast majority of them were entirely unnecessary. I’m not blaming the victims, just the society which encourages and permits this.

I had a nose job after getting hit in the face with a basketball that is really the only cosmetic surgery I have had. I love these videos, please keep em up

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@eliscanfield3913

Жыл бұрын

ow, that must've been quite a hit

@ziggyzap1

Жыл бұрын

@@eliscanfield3913 It bounced off the backboard and hit me in the face and yeah but I wasn't mad, the other kid just started saying sorry over and over again as blood came out my nose, my glasses were broken but I was laughing because I now had a reason to leave school that day

@ArDeeMee

Жыл бұрын

@@ziggyzap1 Kid humor is weird. =)

@mrjjman2010

Жыл бұрын

@@ziggyzap1 lol thought your story was going to take some sort of a dark turn, glad it didn’t. Glad you’re well and you didn’t get given a cancerous nose or something 😬

I wonder if the lethal dose of irony was met when TUV tried to use "We had no idea what was in those implants!" as a defense for not properly inspecting the implants before certifying them

@SianaGearz

Жыл бұрын

They probably wouldn't have found anything. They would have received "engineering samples" aka product made 100% to spec rather than a sample out of mass production. The manufacturer is responsible for providing the sample, and it signs (pinky promises) that it's representative. If you were a cheating manufacturer, would you let them potentially find what you don't want to be found this easily, or would you prepare a perfect product?

I'm from Germany, and I have to say: Thank you for your creative pronounciation of TÜV-Technischer Überwachungs-Verein. At least, you tried. But it is the same for me with french words, I have to admit, and because of German being a hard to learn language, you don't have to be ashamed. It definately made me smile.

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

Thank you :D

@Dutch3DMaster

Жыл бұрын

Hehe, it's the same when I hear TV programs try to pronounce Dutch in an English voice-over, and the attempt catches me off guard and I pause, reverse and re-listen, only to not hear it, sometimes turning the volume up to stupid and then realizing they are trying to use a Dutch word, pronounce a Dutch name or something like that :P .

@antjejaeger7844

Жыл бұрын

@@Dutch3DMaster I have to admit that "Technischer Überwachungsverein" is a complicated name for non-native speakers. But my favorite example is the German real crime tv show: Aktenzeichen XY. Sounds creepy in english.I really like to hear dutch people speaking. It always sounds cute to me.

My Grandpa was a Sheriff's deputy for 24 years and a sheriff for 7 before he retired. He pulled someone going down the interstate swerving at high speed. He got up and she screamed my "Tit exploded!" He followed them to the hospital and sure enough her implant burst

These things often do boil down to sales and products. There are companies who knowingly put out dangerous, toxic, and potentially deadly products every single day, and they basically just do a simple calculation to decide if the risk is worth it. Would the money coming in from sales outweigh the cost of how hard they're going to be sued by the people who get hurt by this shoddy product? That's a huge simplification of things of course, but that doesn't make it any less true.

@horiciOwO

Жыл бұрын

I feel like this is true for a lot of cheap "silicone sculptures". Most people would not suspect or if so go to a court that they got cancer from a sex toy

@elcidleon6500

Жыл бұрын

Now with microplastics that is lingering everywhere now...

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

@@horiciOwO Well, we all know that excessive sexual releases, especially with an excessive number of partners but also entirely unaccompanied, are potentially carcinogenic, so such an argument would be an uphill battle. (This comment is _partly_ tongue-in-cheek.)

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

@@debesys6306 Well I borrowed the “stop it or you’ll go blind” bit and modified it to “stop it or you’ll develop cancer.” That STIs can cause various cancers would be an actual fact.

my grandma got a complete removal of everything on her left side including the lymph feeding the area due to stage 4 bc, and she was asked if she wanted implants to "restore the appearance" when going through the surgery information. she looked at the surgeon and said "I'll be damned if I put anything else in my body" referring to this. 11 years later she's still using those heavy silicone inserts u put in bras.

@suchabadkitty1293

Жыл бұрын

Industrial grade silicone. The same stuff used to caulk the bathtub. He should have been given life in prison. Good on your grandmother for having common sense!👍🏽

@suzyfarnham3165

10 ай бұрын

My Mum is also a BC survivor. She now knits 'boobs' for survivors? They are so much lighter that the bulky silicone ones? You should look into them? My Mum donates them to the BC centres here in Australia? I am sure she got the pattern for them from a BS Facebook group or something?

It's sad companies STILL need reminding to this day: *CHEAPER DOES NOT MEAN SAFER*

@suchabadkitty1293

Жыл бұрын

In fact it often means LESS safe. All companies know this and many simply do not care about anything but profits. That people might DIE isn't even a consideration.

I met some girls who have implants over the years, all of them intelligent, funny and ambitious, hard working people. It would break my heart knowing one of their lives had to end like this, and my thoughts go out to everyone who is somehow affected by this tragic chapter in medical history. 😭

@evegreenification

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for having a good heart.

“Show us the boob factory” has to be the single funniest quote I’ve ever seen in a Plainly Difficult video. Thanks for making my day :)

You made it Jon your scandal video is so informative that the German Version of KZread warns you before watching your video to inform yourself at the official government health institution before being "miss informed" Haha

@ohioplayer-bl9em

Жыл бұрын

These people are sick. The "official" approved "information" is just as likely to contain misinformation or be outright lies. Conspiracy theorist is a word they use to paint anyone that doesn't believe the official approved information as crazy. When having any debate or conversation with someone you automatically lost the second you start calling people names and trying to get everyone else to do the same or worse then cutting their microphone off. If your argument is solid you should have zero need to go to that level and easily win the debate with provable facts.

@ArDeeMee

Жыл бұрын

@@ohioplayer-bl9em You‘re missing the point, fictional person. If anything, there are more videos needing some form of „use your brain“ reminder, and official government websites are the way to go.

@RoboRoby321

Жыл бұрын

@@ArDeeMee official government websites are not 100% safe, the government will also do stuff that goes against the people's interests and they WILL hide and reroute evidence and investigations so the truth remains hidden

@omarb7164

Жыл бұрын

@@ArDeeMeehi, I heard something about weapons of mass destruction? In Iraq? A guy, I think American, mentioned it in the UN assembly recently. Do you have a link to the official statement on the government website? I’m very concerned about the nukes being developed… the American insisted there’s even proof! He said so in no uncertain terms! A top ambassador of the US government! Who am I to argue?

@ajax700

Жыл бұрын

_the German Version of KZread warns you before watching your video to inform yourself at the official government health institution before being "miss informed"_ Hello Nino. I don't understand. What does the German version suggest to do? It is a french company. Has the German government banned these implants? Best wishes.

The inheritance of hell from this guy and many others lives on, because I remember quite clearly that the scandal of using non medical grade silicone for breast implants is a recurring theme that pops up in news every few years, at least here in Brazil (nice Mariana link btw... :D That's some good piece of investigation there!). Sometimes it's about producers and distributors, sometimes it's clandestine plastic surgery clinics, but it always comes back at some point. The thing is, the cosmetic surgery industry in several countries in the world have become so entrenched and their advertisement so predatory that there are several people who are treated less like patients or costumers, and more like a part of some cult. There is a large part of the cosmetic surgery industry that operates much like alternative medicine scams. Costumers, or indoctrinated, will do anything and everything towards a cosmetic surgery blindly believing it'll solve all of their problems, and it's a sad sight to see. Vice made a piece just recently about a mother in Japan submitting her young daughter to an eye lid cosmetic procedure that was completely unnecessary... hearing her speak on how this was going to change her daughters' life somehow was just heart breaking. It was obvious that she was convinced that if her daughter didn't do that at a young age, she would amount to nothing as an adult. Behind closed doors some of these so called doctors will promise the world to them, boost their self confidence, serve basically as cult leaders telling how a surgery here and there will boost their images and open doors in all places, preaching how image is everything in today's world, and how there is no risk in any procedure they make. It operates in varying levels of scam, but people will always be able to find at any price unscrupulous "doctors" that are willing to take the money. Of course, there are legit reasons for cosmetic and plastic surgery... and in a way, the science has advanced a lot because of people who don't really need it throwing insane amounts of money in it. But man, I've seen so many sad cases of people getting into cosmetic surgeries they didn't need, either dying because of it or spending the rest of their lives with health problems because of those. Rule of thumb for me? If it isn't a procedure a competent and trustworthy doctor is recommending, I'm out. I can live pretty well with being ugly and having imperfect whatever... nose, hairline, cheeks, eye lids, belly, etc. It's just flesh and meat. I don't wanna get into a relationship with anyone who can only judge me on those factors anyway. Women are way worse off due to the pressures of the beauty industry and the general sexism that still permeates all levels of societies all around the world, but if I'm asked for an opinion, I'll always say don't do it. If it isn't a strictly necessary surgery needed for health related reasons, don't do it. If a doctor you are not too sure about is telling you to do it, ask for a second and third opinion, don't go into it blindly. And another thing I should mention - no, the time it takes to do it, the expected recovery time, the fact that it can be done without a full surgery center, the fact that the place looks more like a dentist's office... none of those things diminish the fact that an invasive procedure is a serious thing that can cripple you for life it not outright kill you. The cosmetic surgery industry has worked hard over the years to mask it as a less scary thing than regular surgery, but it's still a serious procedure that can carry all sorts of potentially scary consequences in the long run, it doesn't matter how doctors and offices are trying to make it look trivial. I don't wanna offend or incense people too much on this topic, so I'll just stop. This is only my personal opinion anyways, anyone is free to disagree. But modern societies should be making a better job of celebrating diversity and the uniqueness of each of us, not trying to box everyone into specific standards.

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, but please work on condensing your thoughts to reduce verbiage.

@markusgorelli5278

Жыл бұрын

@@anhedonianepiphany5588 I read his essay and I don't know how. maybe you can paraphrase it shorter so we can see how it should be done.

@suchabadkitty1293

Жыл бұрын

​@@anhedonianepiphany5588 Haha, right? Hope he gets that novel published.

His sentence should have included getting pip implants himself. When he said they're safe, government should have gone- bet, and installed several in him.

@markshort9098

Жыл бұрын

That would also be the benefit of insuring he had an interesting time in jail

@suchabadkitty1293

Жыл бұрын

​@@markshort9098 😆😆😆 Nice

You started to discuss medical-grade silicone, and my eyes were widening, like I knew what nasty turn was coming, but I still shouted "NO!" at my computer at the words "industrial-grade."

from a german standpoint: i love how hard you butchered Technischer Überwachungsverein at 13:37 :D

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

Thank you it was my pleasure

@bloodybritbastard

Жыл бұрын

@@PlainlyDifficult same for the French words too 🤣

@thomasbell7033

Жыл бұрын

You do know how your language sounds to those of us who don't speak German? Like somebody getting sick after eight double-shots of tequila. I mean, with apologies to Goethe.

@hirisk761

Жыл бұрын

I can imagine John seeing French,German or Japanese and going OH BUGGER ME!

@ArDeeMee

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasbell7033 Goethe sucks, so it‘s fine. The language you‘re actually thinking of is probably Dutch or even Danish, both of which have harsher sounds than German.

Technically my finger reconstruction after tumor removal was 'cosmetic surgery' haha. I had a tumor on the main tendon which meant I couldn't move it at all - no idea what would have happened if I hadn't 'opted for cosmetic surgey' :P

A hydrogen implant...now I am almost certain that if a corporation would see some money in it they would actualy make such a thing.

Holy moly, this should of never happened.

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

I agree very much

@brianallison1913

Жыл бұрын

And just think about the fact that this is a scandal that was actually exposed. Makes you wonder what else is going on. But thats what happens when everything is fully corrupted. Then, for some reason, people think the next sacks of fecal matter put in charge will actually change things.

@DystopianOverture

Жыл бұрын

@@PlainlyDifficult Industrial silicone? seriously I can't believe he thought he'll get off Scott free.

@anhedonianepiphany5588

Жыл бұрын

* _should’ve_ or _should have_ (no offence intended)

@DystopianOverture

Жыл бұрын

@@anhedonianepiphany5588 Oh yeah, oops my bad.

Interesting and well made. I remember the big silicone scandal in the US in the 90s. There were talk shows interviewing women who had implants leak. I didn’t know silicone was still being used in other countries after that.

@revenevan11

Жыл бұрын

They do allow silicone implants in the US and other countries nowadays once the scandal was cleared up, but of course it's with safer linings and it's medical grade silicone! Also, both the saline and silicone gel filled implants use a silicone lining around it. There are, however, issues with a type of implant with a textured lining on the outside (to help hold it in place I think)... apparently it causes buildup of micro scar tissue or somethin, iirc. But I've heard it is linked to a very specific (and otherwise very very rare) type of cancer.

@suchabadkitty1293

Жыл бұрын

​@@revenevan11 Large cell lymphoma, which is a rare cancer of the immine system. Nasty, nasty stuff.

Thank you for mentioning that plastic surgery is often done after medically necessary tx. I’m recovering from my 4th post mastectomy surg. I love your channel. It’s fun to listen while I’m recovering.

@TheElf_Online

Жыл бұрын

Hope your recovery goes well and/or continues to go well!

One interesting thing about breast implants is that they can develop a calcium layer on the outside making them like rocks. This of course is a big issue as they can become painful and may need extra surgery to remove.

Hey dude, Brazilian here! Let me start stating that i binge watch your docs and find them extremely well done and educating! Secondly, i apologize in advance if i make any mistake in English. Most of my english skills came from TV, KZread and games (school english here is terrible, i've revised verb to be since 5th grade up to the last year of high school) , so It may be the case that wrote something that have one meaning in my head, but another when read by someone more proficient. I know you have just briefly mentioned the dam(n) disasters in Brazil, but hey it's sunday and i have time to spare (not really), so i'd like to point out a few things that your mention didn't cover (or couldn't, given that it wasn't the main theme of this video). First is that the dam in Mariana wasn't operated by Vale, but by Samarco, which is owned by Vale and BHP (an aussie mining company, which competes with Vale... go figure). As Vale is much bigger than Samarco, it was held responsible. An interesting fact is that BHP is almost unknown to the general public here, and they didn't take as much flak as Vale, both in terms of taking legal responsibility (is far as i know, BHP wasn't fined or had a much smaller fine than Vale, even though the both hold similar amounts of shares) and in terms of public opinion. I also think that TüV wasn't the company responsible for inspecting that dam... Might be, but i've never heard of it and quick googling it returns only results relating TüV to Brumadinho. Another thing is that during the investigation of the Brumadinho case there were some allegations that TüV had alerted Vale of the problems, but Vale contested and pressured TüV to change their final say. Of course TüV assume the responsibility when they bent over to Vale, but ther are not to blame alone. Now everything i've wrote so far is either verifiable by researching it or disclaimed that i'm not sure of the most recent developments. What i'm writing next is my personal opinion. As an engineer (mechanical) and having worked at both brazilian and foreign multinational companies (including a 1 and a half year internship at Vale) i came to conclude that our culture here is heavily focused on short term results, frequently sacrificing the long therm stability. To contextualize i'm on the industry for about 10 years (i've started working when i was in the 3rd semester in uni) and have developed this opinion from both my experiences and talking to people with 30 to 40 years, mostly those who are now in managing positions and had a lot of contact with the international offices. I believe this short term approach happens for two main reasons, although there definitely are others. First is that we are strongly influenced by the american (as in "from United States") culture, which is stereotyped to be "fast paced" (in oposition to the german, nordic or japanese cultures when it comes to project diligence). Second it that, as an emerging economy, we have to be profitable for the foreign companies, but being rigorous increases time and cost. As an example i always cite something that a retired maintenance manager said during a production managing workshop i've attended. He worked for a company that manufactured and maintained locomotive engines. He was saying that the south american market has around one sixth the efficiency of the developed countries and to illustrate this he told that in Chile it takes 3 technicians 2 days do disassemble one engine, while i takes 1 technician to disassemble 2 engines in the US (he had personally visited these and other facilities). As i'm both aware of what we call the "stray dog syndrome" (the tendency that we have to believe that other countries are light years ahead of us and that we are the worst in most aspects - which might be true in some cases) and cautious to recognize valuable critics, i raised my hand and asked: "is that entirely because the south american are not as qualified??". Info: i'm from Minas Gerais, a state in the southeaster region which is the most industrialized in the country. His took a deep breath and said in an almost confession tone: "yeah... good question. Actually, we must recognize that in some less developed regions we don't have good technical school or they do not teach enough people to attract industries there, but near developed regions as here (note: my state alone is as big as France and is only the 10th in per capita GDP) we have people as qualified as any other i've seen in north america and Europe... The thing is that those guys in Chile worked in an open workshop made of vinyl tarp in freezing weather in high altitudes with manual tools... So as the gloves interfered with work, they were able to work for only about 20 minutes straight before their naked hands started to hurt, so they took turns with one working at each time while the other two were warming themselves in a campfire and their bathroom was an open latrine behind a wall. The american guys work in a closed heated workshop with electric hoists and pneumatic tools." This raises the question: why don't the workers unite, form a union and vindicate better conditions? The answer is uncomfortably simple: if we have better conditions we would cost almost as much as their workers, so why would they pay us and not their compatriots? This answer might be limited when applied to maintenance in equipment used for commodities exploration that depend on the natural occurrence, but is valid nonetheless and even more in other sectors. Well, that was interesting, organizing the thought like that, especially in another language, but i gotta get back to work. You know, emerging country, having to make end meet, being understaffed... those kind of thing. Sorry for the long text and i will be glad to answer anyone who would like to know more about here! Cannot promise fast answers, but i promise good intention.

@bigoderra

Жыл бұрын

31 to 40 years of experience*. i'm 30 something myself, needed to endorse the argument by evoking someone more experienced than me.

I'm severely sleep deprived, but I laughed till I cried at that YOLO. And I appreciate your disclaimer at the beginning. I remember when this scandal broke, and the victims were so often treated as if they deserved what happened.

You post, my fingers come running on my screen to click. Good work, bud.

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@heavyhitter2655

Жыл бұрын

@@PlainlyDifficult you're welcome.

@cadillacdeville5828

Жыл бұрын

He really does good work 🙂

@cadillacdeville5828

Жыл бұрын

@@PlainlyDifficult you're awesome with your narration

love your vids! keeping me company while im in the hospital! thanks man!

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

I hope you get better soon!

@randybobandy9208

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully not for breast implants ;) Get well soon!

@daviddavidson2357

Жыл бұрын

Breast implants?

Thankyou so much for covering this john. My partner is still, after 20 yrs, suffering from the complete, No Fux Given, dishonesty, greed and negligence of this man and his company. The fact that she will always have to face irreversible and persistent health problems for the rest of her life is something, that while we have come to terms with, will never be set right.

5:57 Great way to check if people are paying attention! Scared me for a sec. But, it would give a new meaning to "her bust".

The French can make "YOLO" sound so sophisticated 🤔 Thanks John for another "uplifting" video

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

The FDA has saved many lives more than once. There was a morning sickness medication that a lady in the FDA refused to approve in the US, despite being approved almost everywhere else on the planet.

@Lawofimprobability

Жыл бұрын

You mean Thalidomide. Some of the lawsuits over the effects continue to be notable in US civil procedure.

@Failure_Is_An_Option

Жыл бұрын

@@Lawofimprobability That sounds right. Back in the 50's?

@Lawofimprobability

Жыл бұрын

@@Failure_Is_An_Option Yup. The main medial developments were in the 1950s but the big marketing campaign was in the 1960s. The big lawsuits were in the late 1970s-early 1980s over how injured people would recover given they could not be sure which company made the exact doses that poisoned them (the decision was to split the damages by total manufacturing output of the drug).

@SianaGearz

Жыл бұрын

I see a lot of Contergan damaged people out on the streets in Germany.

@rachelhansbro7802

Жыл бұрын

……Killed many more than they’ve ever saved! Cmon!

My grandmother lost a breast to breast cancer at a pretty young age. I never even noticed, but my mom told me she was very self-conscious about it her whole life. So I can see people getting these for all kinds of reasons.

This one hits a little to close to home for me.

Both my mother and grandma had breast cancer, my grandma getting it about 10 years after my mother. My grandmother was only able to be cured simply with chemotherapy, however my mother was luckily able to be cured with a double mastectomy. During this controversy I was always fearful of the dangers these implants may have presented to my mother, especially when she had a rupture and had to get them replaced, and she is definitely not the only person who struggled with this same issue. I am very grateful to have my mother and grandmother well now, and I am very grateful no further severe health problems came from a rupture, but still very worrisome. Funny enough one of my fondest childhood memories is being probably only about 4 and I remember picking up and playing with an implant like a stress ball and my mom and the doctor laughing (obviously I had no idea exactly what they were at the time!) lol.

I love Saturday mornings because of plainly difficult I get a new video to watch while I'm heading to pick up chipped beef and waffles

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

mmmmmmm Waffles

john, thank you for making this series on scandals. i love learning about scandals as a concept, but i dont see a lot of channels covering them. i love these :)

I’m excited to watch this, love that you’re covering such a different kind of scandal.

I do not know because I am not a French lawyer but surely the charge should have been maansnaalter

@PlainlyDifficult

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like some other folks need investigating.

I think TUV was probably snookered by PIP. Since PIP was knowingly doing this, I'll bet they cooked their incoming receiving records so that the good medical grade silicone covered the entirety of what they needed to build a lot. I was wondering before why PIP still included 25% medical grade and this answers my question: to pass inspections.

@SianaGearz

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if they used a medical outer shell and industrial filling and thus reasoned that it's "safe". Even the bad guys don't always want to think they're the bad guys.

I love your quirky sense of humour while still remaining serious about the tragedies you narrate! And im in love with your voice😻

John, I've been watching your videos since 2018, and I can't believe how much your channel has grown.

I can give some keys to understand the light sentence. Jean-Claude Mas was (and still is) old. If he had died during the trial, there would have been no conviction and the victims would not have been considered victims in the eye of the law. Going for a lighter and easily provable offense, here fraud, was an easy win. Going for a criminal offence would have been a battle between experts arguing of the real danger of industrial silicone that could have lasted decades and Mas may have died an innocent man, preventing the victim to be legally recognised as victims. Sexism also played an important role. Victims were seen as frivolous woman who wanted big breast and it was a kind of "divine punishment", as if they had paid for their hubris. That's a real shame because had the public supported the victims, the prosecutor may have tried to go for an harsher sentence.

Yey just what I needed, thank you, I really enjoy your work.

@PlainlyDifficult

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You're very welcome!

Thank you for this video. I remember reading about the 2000 US FDA ban on silicone implants. Along with seeing sporadic news reports of issues with them going back into the late 80's. However, I was unaware of what happened with PIP! Wow!

Wow, I randomly was recommended this. Excellent coverage. This does explain the jump in breast cancer in UK and USA. Medical grade is so different than industrial; excellent point.

Great video John. I can't believe how easily these fools got off. Have a great day!

@PlainlyDifficult

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Thank you

The weather was so bad he didn't even have to pause to take a look

@PlainlyDifficult

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It has been pretty rubbish here of late!

@mommachupacabra

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@@PlainlyDifficult I always include your weather report if I do a Twitter review (yes, that's me that always mentions it.)

Always love your videos. What is even more shocking are the side effects a lot of the PIp implant patients have encountered since their surgeries including joint and muscle aches, lethargy, headaches, hair loss & a type of non Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Some of these do not subside even if the implants are removed.

I chuckled out loud at 6:14 -6:15. May i suggest you put 'butchered' foreign names, locations etc in writing on the screen in edit? It would help if we want to research further. Great job otherwise. New sub, with love from Belgium.

A possible future disaster for you might be the mining disaster of Lassing, Austria in 1998. There was a mud slump into the talc mine of Lassing, where one miner was locked in about 60 meters below the surface. His colleagues then tried to rescue him when a second, much larger, mud slump entered the mine. This time taking all the other miners with it. After nearly 10 days the first miner could be rescued alive, being "famous" as the wonder of Lassing. The other miners however, were never to be found despite all recue efforts. Sadly, this whole disaster was caused by negligence and illegal mining activities by the company, but also by not that deep inspections by government officials prior to the disaster. On the surface the whole thing caused a massive crater to be formed, pulling even houses into the deep.

Despite your wish that the specific desires for such implants be kept out of the video, it should be stated that those seeking these to “enhance” perfectly normal breasts are suffering from body dysmorphia and thus ought to be be precluded from cosmetic surgery. This overall despicable industry predominantly preys upon the vulnerable, with few exceptions.

Nothing like a little greed with a side of misery . Thank you for this video.

This was so interesting ! Thanks for your hard work

@PlainlyDifficult

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Thank you

Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation. Too bad they couldn't NIP it in the bud before everything went tits up. Such a sticky situation that affected as so many lives. But sometimes things just go a little pear-shaped I'm sorry... I should be ashamed of myself. I'll leave now.

@PlainlyDifficult

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:D

thank you, your videos are well-researched and unassuming

Another awesome watch friend. Looking forward to many more!

Hold on, TUV tested and verified the implants process but then denied they knew what was in them? Oookkaaayyyy…..

I want to point out that I prefer you "jibbering" over them lying and killing people. You might get a few words wrong, they ruined lives. Please keep "jibbering" and saving future lives. You might sound silly for a minute, but you are pointing out flaws that can save lives. Please please never stop being you. Even if you quit the channel for any reason, keep being you, keep knowing you saved people from future horrible events. One of the lives you saved might someday be mine, or my son's, or my grandson's...

14:41 - Genuinely dude that made me crease up "Tuning in every week for your dose of disaster and death". Touché fella!

Great videos! One of my favourite channels! 👌🏽

@PlainlyDifficult

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Glad you enjoy it!

I'm surprised that silicone is able to fall under FDA jurisdiction since it's not food nor drugs. Good video.

@hicknopunk

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You don't eat the freshness packets I take it

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

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They also regulate lasers.

@elvingearmasterirma7241

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The FDA regulates a lot of stuff actually. Especially medical stuff.

@colonelmustard2652

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Its a medical device.

@elvingearmasterirma7241

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@@hicknopunk hhhmmm silica

I always look forward to your videos on a Saturday

@PlainlyDifficult

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Thank you!

Love your videos!

Just for clarification: There are three independent TÜV since the privatization: TÜV Nord, TÜV Reinland, who where involved with PIP and TÜV South who are the once who failed to properly oversee the operations of their south-american branch, allowing for the double scandal in brazil whicch as far as I know was the result of blatant corruption by both the local TÜV empoyees and the brazilian company that was running those gold mines.

@cedriclynch

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Would TUV Reinland be the one that certifies the cleanliness of things?

@SianaGearz

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@@cedriclynch all 3 offer an insanely wide, largely overlapping range of certifications.

@cedriclynch

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@@SianaGearz I am sure it is supposed to be Rheinland (named after the river Rhein that flows through it) rather than Reinland (Rein being German for clean or pure, as in Reinheitsgebot the famous German beer purity law).

@SianaGearz

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@@cedriclynch oh. Yeah. That typo isn't very visible.

Imagine being bright enough to go through medical school and then taking all that talent and ability and using it to prey upon women/men who have insecurities with their body.

Ive been refreshing your page since the post like yesterday. Finally

@PlainlyDifficult

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Legend!

"Dear Mas, your implants suck 😘" - the FDA 😂😂😂 Love your humor

I'd never just get surgery only a life and death I has a bypass inmy leg and it's still healing a year later

No radioactive breast implants? I appreciate how you break it all down and the type of, or source of, the incident is all good. 👍🏼

Good job with the silicone tools. Don't think I've forgotten your use of metal on non stick!

@PlainlyDifficult

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XD XD

Outro has some cool shots of Detroit!

I have a testicular implant and this kinda thing is terrifying to think about