Humantics Foundation Breast Implants: Recovery & Discovery To meet women and their loved ones and read their stories ... please click here. Here are three sites in the Blog World that I am updating frequently. Ilena Rosenthal's Personal Blog For decades now, the breast implant / chemical / vaccination / pharmaceutical / oil / cellphones and tobacco industries have merged their massive public relations budgets to create a enormous network or media. They fill the various medium with the industry point of view claiming that their corporate science is sound and mis-labeling their opponents quacks and junk scientists. In fact, this vast team are pseudo-skeptics ...UNskeptical of the dangers of these high profit products, and their claims to have debunked the dangers of the above, merely magical thinking. They've debunked nothing. They make false and early industry friendly conclusions on ongoing controversies ... the opposite of a true sceptic. Their teams attempt to drown out the voices of those damaged by these (and other) products. It is my humble opinion, after 13 years of advocacy, that one of the centers is at Quackwatch, my long term nemesis, and other junk science related pages. Operator, Stephen Barrett's media team fill Wikipedia, Usenet and the blogworld with their partisan viewpoints masquerading as unbiased science. It is George Orwell's vision in his prophetic book, 1984, of the Ministry of Truth spread by industry via the junk science / quackwatch campaign. Up means down. Safe means dangerous. Truth is false. Shocking document: FDA Science and Mission at Risk ... " The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific base has eroded ..." -- never truer than in their ill-fated decision to cave in to industry pressure and putting the health of generations by approving breast implants as 'safe.' The Humantics Foundation welcomes Gretchen's New Website ... FDA Allowing Mentor to Drop Women From Study & DeLauro Letter To FDA ... please help us take action."Quackbusters" Have Giant Court Losses on Two Continents by Ilena Rosenthal" Humantics Foundation pays tribute to Luciano Pavarotti ... click here. August, 2007 Dow Corning celebrates 12 years of "bankruptcy protection" while hundreds of thousands of women harmed by their faulty products ... receive either nothing or virtually nothing for their implant related illnesses and injuries. Please visit new links of women from our support group & their lives after implants ... on this Mother's Day, we wish to bring attention to how entire families are harmed when breast implants go wrong.
We also have serious concerns regarding the new nominee for Surgeon General and how his appointment would jeoparize women's freedoms. Click here for early comments we've read. Please click rose to go to the my most recent FOR OUR WINTER HOLIDAYS 2006 MESSAGE, click here
In the Fall of 1995, having nary a clue what could spring forth from this action, I created the first public newsgroup for women harmed by these dangerous products. My goal was to create a support group for women with breast implant concerns and help could connect together. Almost immediately, I became a target for the breast implant industry and their vast public relations teams on the Wild West of the Internet ...Usenet. I was immediately attacked by Patrick O'leary ... then Vice President and later President of Inamed/McGhan (in disguise). Click here for our 11 year history. Since January, 2001, I have been the defendant in a classic Industry VS Activist SLAPP suit intended to silence my voice and exhaust my resources via their vast public relations teams. November 20, 2006, the Supreme Court of California released their unanimous opinion that I prevailed against the third plaintiff ... Terry Polevoy. Lower courts had previously ruled that neither Stephen Barrett nor attorney, Christopher Grell had any case against me. In fact, I had never mentioned Grell's name until he SLAPP sued me for libel. This ruling is an important one for internet providers and hosts of internet chat groups and blogs and individual posters such as myself. Previously, the threat or reality of being sued for what a subscriber posted, could seriously limit open discussions. Much of what is posted on the internet is the work of others. This threat being erased will invigorate discussions on controversial topics ... including breast implants and health freedom. In fact, the (losing) plaintiffs in this case have a history of suing and of threatening critics with long, expensive litigation such as this one, for merely posting the words of another. They intimidate talk show hosts and ISP's and blog owners with threats of lawsuits in attempts to control messages with which they disagree. This ruling will shut down meritless suits such as these, designed to intimidate into silence those with conflicting opinions.
Click here for website on this important internet case ... now called Barrett Vs Rosenthal. For more on the legal and other antics of the industry backed Junk Science / Quackwatch Team, please click here for QuackWatchWatch. To read about Dr. Bernard Patten's experiences as a target to the same Junk Science smear tactics, please click here. To read my Blog, on various subjects discussed on the Newsgroup, click here. We agree with the comment below:
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Ilena Rosenthal, Director Humantics Foundation
209-782-0049 phone Thank you for any donation that will help The Humantics Foundation keep the message of the dangers of breast implants before the public. We have spent over 18 years on this Mission. To respond to a question I've been asked many times ... no, I do not receive any monies for prevailing for the years of litigation into which they have forced me. A great quote that applies to the vast silicone industry and the so called "science" of silicone: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair
The sad irony is, that when the Quackbusters sue for 'libel' ... they simultaneously wage vicious smear campaigns. In fact, since this Supreme Court verdict against them came out, they are now circulating websites falsely claiming that I am "bankrupt" and "was arrested." Neither is factual ... only meant to cause harm ~ typical of the information put out by the Quackbusters Rag-tag Posse, led by Stephen Barrett and Terry Polevoy against so many of us.
There are hundreds of thousands of women already made ill and / or
Without your help, our voice could be silenced. Online Support Groups & Chat Rooms Links Implant Info Net Website & Chatroom Issues Related to Breast Implant Advocacy and Legal Issues Because of Them ILENA ROSENTHAL'S NEWSGROUP BLOG QUACK WATCH WATCH GREAT LINKS BARRETT VS ROSENTHAL MEDIA To Meet Brave Women & Their Loved Ones from our Support Group Karen Curry Rogene's Story (founder of Silicone Kids) Shari Halverson Tammy's Story and Dental Problems post Implant Terri Peake ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are proud to welcome a new Website in Dutch / Nederlands dedicated with love to Marlou Boots. Marlou published Stille Kracht (silent strength) for several years and kept thousands of Dutch and European women informed. Click here for this new website. Special thanks to Frank and Elvire for making this happen ... and for Marlou for her years of selfless service. She passed away on May 7, 2010 and we miss her mightily. Click here for a memoriam to her in Dutch. For information in Dutch / Nederlands, click here.
Long time Dutch advocate, Marlou Boots with a small part of her collection of "explants." Media Links Please view excellent video by implant survivors: Another Video (please let us know if any links go down) |
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ACTION ALERT ~~~~~~~~~ Meet Dawn Beaven of the UK Silicone Survivors group ... read her interview in the August 2006 PRIMA INFORMATION IN SPANISH from Dr. Zuckerman's site Latest Electronic Newsletter from Tort Claimant Committee 8.31.2011 ~~~~~~~~~ Keeping Abreast of Ilena is interviewed and discusses the dangers of breast implants and the resulting industry backed Smear Campaign against her. Click here to read about Stephen Barrett and Christopher Grell's loss and the third plaintiff, Terry Polevoy, whose case against her is now in the Supreme Court of California. (Update: Ilena prevailed against Polevoy also, November 20, 2006. Click here. ~~~~~~~~~ Listen to Dr. Sherrill Sellman interview Ilena Rosenthal by clicking Progressive Radio Network logo and going to August 28, 2006. What Women Must Know
~~~~~~~~~ Click here for Pending Motions in Dow Bankruptcy All electronic newsletters from Dow Bankruptcy (scroll to bottom) ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ MUST READ "Decisions in the Dark" ... click here to open pdf file. Dr. Zuckerman's site on the science of breast implants National Cancer Institute Spells Out Risks of Breast Implants Data Show Increased Risks Of Death From Cancers and Suicide Read about Kim Hoffman's upcoming book on her Mentor breast implant experiences ... and more! Meet Karen Curry and read about her life after silicone gel breast implants. Dr. Vasey's "Where There is Smoke There is Fire." Rheumatologist who has researched extensively the immune system and breast implants. Mary McDonough, formerly of The Waltons, now speaks out on her Lupus and Breast Implant Connection. Founder of the Saline Support Group, Patty Faussett shares her story of healing. Read Redbook article on the effects on children after implants from 1995. (opens pdf file) Shari Halverson interviewed on MTV about her saline implant problems Our Jewell's story on a Scleroderma Forum Canadian Study from 2003 on breast implants Toxic Discovery Network -good links and information Breast Augmentation: A Younger Generation Seeks Perfection Colleen's Story ... she also appeared on MTV Meet Kacey Long and read her story after saline breast implants Sally Kirkland ~ Oscar Nominated Actress, talks about her 5 sets of breast implants Memoirs of a Junk Scientist by Dr. Bernard Patten ~ important expose on the workings of the industry PR teams Breast Implants: America's Silent Epidemic by Ilena Rosenthal Keeping Abreast of Parasitic Implants Human Adjuvant Disease Corporation Great photos from the FDA Hearings by Kathy Nye ... meet many of the wonderful people who gave testimony and support at the Hearings in April, 2005 Sherrill Sellman, author of Hormone Heresy, Interviews Ilena on breast implants Fibromyalgia and Ruptured Silicone Gel Breast Implants Silicone Cover Up and Political Manipulations by Ilena in 1996 Note from Ilena: If you find any typos, busted links etc. and want to let me know ... I very much appreciate it! Our staff is only me, right now with all my heart and soul, wanting to keep our message in front of the public. It was 11 years last August, and I've seen so many support groups and activists in this issue die ... or get too ill to fight Goliath anymore ... and these powerful women fade underground to protect their health and family life. Corporate America and the Plastic Surgeon's Lobbies are no match for sick and dying women. Their combined PR campaigns are legendary, orchestrated by the PR giant, Burson Marsteller, junkscience.com, ACSH.org, quackwatch.com to name but a few. One longtime support group leader, with no shortage of her own serious implant related health challenges put it this way to me: "You on the other hand, just battling a world of multi-billion dollar corps, a world of murderously insane lunatics, and prepping for Court." The Court she is referring to is the Supreme Court of California. Click here for the Quackbusters vs me.
The newsgroup I created in the Fall of 1995 is one medium that the Junk Science Campaign can not totally control as they have all others. The Wild West of the Internet ... a visit there now a while ago would reveal a Corporate Lobbyist (Andrew M. Langer) totally embedded with and leading a small, vocal group of those who call themselves "legitimate"support group leaders who have tried to push me out of their mutual way since Autumn, 2001. They have worked hand in hand with my Plaintiffs above and Inamed's former President. .. to create a Smear Campaign against me ... so vicious ... it appears they have no boundaries. Since I began the newsgroup, their twisted version of my personal life has been broadcast wide & far. That it bears no relationship to reality doesn't faze nor slow them now in their defamation against me. Together in what they named the "SBIPrivateClub" ... this group and and former Inamed President Patrick O'leary (currently head of Eurosilicone in France) have hired a Private Investigator to hunt me down ... stalked friends of mine in their search, and attempted to access my bank accounts. They are, in my opinion, the embodiment of the PR Plan describing the cover up of damning Dow Corning information ... and the creation of "networks." These are typical tactics used for years by the "quackbusters" in their attempts to destroy chiropractors, holistic and alternative healers, naturopaths, fluoride activists, critics, radio show hosts, homeopaths and doctors working to uncover the mystery of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities -- to name but a few. Check back for links and more details soon ... as this is being updated as their Campaign is spreading. Click here.
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Silicone gel breast implants most defective medical device ever approved by the FDA from Public Citizen Please visit our blog for Newsgroup Information. November 16 , 2006 UPDATE The Humantics Foundation joins the family of our beloved Helen Wattier in grieving her death after years of serious implant related complications ... including silicone in the lungs. Her doctors had never heard of this ... however, we have many times.
Please visit our Memorial Page for Helen here.
Black Letter Day. October 20, 2006 Health Canada Caves to Breast Implant Makers ... giving false assurances to Canadan women.
Ilena quoted in the Miami New Times. Saline is no solution: That Dr. Boobs article — wow!
Ilena Rosenthal, director September 5, 2006 was an important date in Internet Law. After nearly 6 years, the Caliornia Supreme Court heard Oral Arguments regarding the re-posting of one comment I made about one of the so-called Quackbusters, Terry Polevoy. His two co-plaintiffs, quackwatch.com head Stephen Barrett and attorney Christopher Grell earlier lost all their appeals against me. Click here for webpage explaining the case. Deepest thanks to all my friends and supporters who have stood by me for the 6 years of this lawsuit ... a classic SLAPP suit whose intention is to silence and bankrupt activists such as myself. ~~~~~~~~~ The FDA Scientific Fairness for Women Act Sends Clear Message to the EXCERPT: The DeLauro bill would also halt the FDA approval process on Another important provision calls for an independent scientific study Gandy said, "More research is critically needed to determine what role ~~~~~~~~~
Very balanced article in New York Observer .... Will Silicone Bounce Back? Meet Terri Peake ... former Penthouse Pet ... and read her story of years of pain from her saline breast implants.
Dr. Sellman, author of Hormone Heresy, interviews Ilena in HormoneWise Digest in 2003 Important Notice - sick implanted women and offspring sought Breast Reconstruction at Time of Mastectomy May Affect Radiation
8.13.2006 This article in Sunday's newspapers indicates how untrustworthy the so-called "trials" or "studies" done by the breast implant industry really are. So much is riding on the 'approval' by the FDA based on these 'studies' that a RED ALERT WARNING should be issued to any considering breast implants for any reason. EXCERPT: ~~~~~~~~~~ For Dow Claimants and those in the Revised Settlement, please visit petition to Judge Hood regarding your rights in this settlement. Click here. ~~~~~~~~~~ "They missed the boat," said Diana Zuckerman, president of the ~~~~~~~~~~
Bravo to Dr. Zuckerman for her excellent presentation to the Canadian Parliament last week. Click here for full text. HBO has a great show this month called Plastic Disasters. Women from our group were interviewed. To view HBO Schedule and info, please click here. Bravo to Huffington Post and the Spoof, Plastic Assets for being a novel way to tell potential customers about the very real dangers of breast implants. Click here to see this Winner from the Contagious Festival. Web site busts the breast-implant fantasy
Although the media is filled with the good news that breast implants are in no way related to cancer, there are many of us that are very skeptical about this Dow funded 'study.' In fact, over the last two decades, all the Dow funded 'studies' have found 'no connection' with implants and various diseases, while independent research has come to very different conclusions. The plastic surgeons have websites springing up throughout cyberspace advertising and promoting their cash cow ... breast implants. Please read Dr. Zuckerman's Breast Implant Study Results Reflect Funding here. Excerpt: The new Dow-funded study, conducted in Sweden, found that Swedish women
To contribute to The Humantics Foundation so that we can continue to raise awareness to the dangers of breast implants, please click below to donate via Paypal.
Both US breast implant makers, Inamed and Mentor, have received "approvable" letters from the FDA for their silicone gel implants. We've been hearing from scores and scores of women already ill & injured from previous versions of new & improved breast implants. If the FDA does approve them, they will be ignoring their own scientists and yielding once again to industry propaganda and pressure. The so-called 'conditions' that are required are expensive and totally unenforceable, such as MRI's to detect rupture costing up to $2,000. Help us convince the FDA and Congress that they are making a fatal error in rushing through this approval. It's still not too late. With the sudden resignation {for Pharmaceutical Industry connections} of FDA chair Lester Crawford, we still have a chance for sanity to prevail. One of his last acts pre-resignation, was to declare silicone gel implants, with hundreds of thousands of FDA Med Watch Reports of complications, injuries, illnesses and death, 'approvable.' Our greatest wish is that as we begin this new year, that our prayers are heard and sanity prevails ... on God's Green Earth & in the Breast Implant Awareness Cause ... more here "When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." William Blake February 26, 2006: Midland News article on ongoing Dow Bankruptcy Saga NOTES FROM ILENA: After over 10 years in bankruptcy protection, Dow has paid less than a quarter of the claims, and these average under $10,000 each. In most cases, this does not even cover the cost of explantation ... borne for the most part out of the pockets of the women. EXCERPTS: Claims administrator David Austern said the facility has paid around 57,000 claims, amounting to $565.5 million.
This month, the facility began reprogramming its computer system, a job
expected to be finished by April 15. The computer work, and testing it
to make certain it does what it's supposed to do, won't stop claims
payments "but it will absolutely slow them down," Austern said. more here .... More news stories here ... February 13, 2006: Please read Beth Taylor's new website sharing her ordeal with implants. Click here for our Daily Page with a history of recent news stories ... if you have more to add, please send email here.
Here is a photo of one of our beloved support group member's explanted "new & improved" silicone gel implants of the time. To read her story, click the photo.
Breast Augmentation: A Younger Generation Seeks Perfection A Student interview with many perceptive insights. Here is a photo of one of our beloved support group member's explanted "new & improved" silicone gel implants of the time. To read her story, click the photo.
Platinum concentrations high for women & their children with breast implants New! For information on platinum testing, click here.
We are dedicated to raising awareness to the true and serious risks of breast implants and other silicone products. What began as a small research project for a friend with tumors and cysts around her 20 year old saline implants in August, 1995, has become an amazing adventure for me beyond anything I could have imagined. Speaking out on the true dangers of a product so desirable and yet so potentially harmful, sharing the too real stories of women who made the fateful decision to have breast implants, almost immediately made me the target of an unrelenting and incredibly vicious 11 year Defamation Campaign which continues to date. My belief is that it is quite related to these multi-billion dollar:
The manufacturers and Plastic Surgeon's PR campaigns are legendary ... funding groups like the ACSH and CEI etc. ... who use every medium to push their viewpoint ... including suing activists like myself. For details of their high profile, internet libel suit against me and several others ,visit here. For wonderful articles explaining the Public Relations Wars against activists such as myself, click here. For great links to studies and related websites, click here. Dr. Edward Melmed holding up a disintegrated breast implant at the FDA Silicone Gel Hearings in October, 2004.
In November, 1995, I created the only Usenet Newsgroup, alt.support.breast-implant, to provide a place for support and a way for women and their families to connect. I obviously got in the way of the Silicone and Plastic Surgery Industries and their Public Relations Machine well greased by silicone dollars. Nothing was too personal nor too untrue for Mine Enemies to post or email about me. Details of this are here. In early 2001, just days after my new marriage, I was made aware that I was named in a high profile Cyber-Libel Suit by the ultra sue happy, so-called "Quackbusters." They accused me of being in conspiracy with people I had never even met, and libeling someone I didn't know existed. In August, 2001, with thanks to the First Amendment which guarantees Freedom of Speech, and my wonderful attorney Mark Goldowitz, of the California Anti-Slapp Project, we were successful in our defense against them. The case was a classic SLAPP suit ... designed to bankrupt and silence critics and advocates and activists such as myself. The court documents, Judge Richmond's 27 page Opinion, and the press we've received are detailed here. On Appeal, both plaintiffs, Stephen Barrett, head of the so-called "Quackwatch" and the" Healthfraud" groups, and attorney Christopher Grell, completely lost to me. Regarding plaintiff Terry Polevoy, there was one comment I re-posted about him, that the Appeals Court deemed "potentially libelous." Because re-posting material on the internet affects millions of users, upon our request, The Supreme Court of California is hearing our case. Details are here. An enormous benefit of these high profile, enormously expensive and painful lawsuits, has been to expand the audience to my message ~ breast implants can and do cause serious injuries and illnesses to untold thousands of women. To visit related websites, medical, legal, and several created by survivors of their breast implant related problems, click here. We respectfully dedicate this website to the untold thousands of women harmed by not only their breast implants, but further by the silicone manufacturers and their insidious Public Relations campaigns ... with includes embedding their lobbyists and PR staff amongst the support system. We dedicate it also, to The First Amendment and Freedom of Speech for all.
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Shari Halverson interviewed on Florida News about her saline implant problems
Dr. E. Melmed debates Dr. Rey during Hearings
Online Support Groups & Chat Rooms Implant Info Net Website & Chatroom Lany's Prayer & Information Group
Breast Implants: America's Silent Epidemic, from Total Health Magazine, click here.
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