J&J really pride themselves on being a family friendly company, which makes it extra damaging that they knowingly gave mothers and babies cancer for 50+ years.
As far back as the 50s their scientists showed that asbestos was present in their talc. Back when the story broken I read that some of their internal research even associated talc itself with cancer. In the 70s they lied to regulators, saying they hadn’t found any asbestos recently, they had of course. Even after most other companies stopped using actual talc in baby powder, J&J refused to change and insisted it was safe.
J&J really pride themselves on being a family friendly company, which makes it extra damaging that they knowingly gave mothers and babies cancer for 50+ years
Yeah and thousands of Chinese companies are selling billions of vape pens worldwide which damage lung DNA with dihydroacetone product of vape juice heating, but the internet says it’s “safer”.
J&J really pride themselves on being a family friendly company, which makes it extra damaging that they knowingly gave mothers and babies cancer for 50+ years.
As far back as the 50s their scientists showed that asbestos was present in their talc. Back when the story broken I read that some of their internal research even associated talc itself with cancer. In the 70s they lied to regulators, saying they hadn’t found any asbestos recently, they had of course. Even after most other companies stopped using actual talc in baby powder, J&J refused to change and insisted it was safe.
That’s the most 2025 sentence I’ve read so far! 😬
and the new formulation which is just corn starch, is inferior product.
Depends if you want to get cancer or not.
Yeah and thousands of Chinese companies are selling billions of vape pens worldwide which damage lung DNA with dihydroacetone product of vape juice heating, but the internet says it’s “safer”.
“Yeah, but what about…”