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Breast Implants Linked to Higher Suicide Risk
Reuters ^
| 3-7-03
| Patricia Reaney
Posted on 03/07/2003 6:52:58 AM PST by Pharmboy
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Not totally surprisng; interesting nonetheless. There are certainly more than a few Hollyweirdos who shouyld be under a suicide watch.
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posted on
03/07/2003 6:52:59 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: aculeus; PatrickHenry; blam
+Silicone, double-barreled, D-cup PING+
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posted on
03/07/2003 6:54:12 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie 'cause they have to)
To: Pharmboy
First THEY drop. Then she drops.
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posted on
03/07/2003 6:55:19 AM PST
by
ricpic
To: ricpic
And, these findings could likely be applied to any cosmetic surgery. For example, if Michael Jackson had any sense of shame, he would have offed himself by now.
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posted on
03/07/2003 6:58:17 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie 'cause they have to)
To: Pharmboy
Hm... post hooters ergo proptor hooters?
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:02:34 AM PST
by
A_perfect_lady
(Did I spell that right?)
To: Pharmboy
Repeat after me:
"Corellation is NOT Causation."
"Corellation is NOT Causation."
"Corellation is NOT Causation."
"Corellation is NOT Causation."
"Corellation is NOT Causation."
"Corellation is NOT Causation."
"Corellation is NOT Causation."
"Corellation is NOT Causation."
"Corellation is NOT Causation."
Now. What do the numbers look like in other countries. What other factors are involved in these women and their states of mind. Are their other disease/risk factors also involved. Ect...
Has everyone on that side of the pond tossed out the whole scientific method thing?
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:03:55 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
To: Dead Corpse; newgeezer
There would almost certainly be a relationship to they types of women who get implants and the types who commit suicide. They are both extremely self centered acts. Selfless women like my wife would never consider either.
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:06:18 AM PST
by
biblewonk
To: biblewonk
Normal (no, not Michael Jackson) plastic surgery is not selfish. What's wrong with a woman who has been made fun of having no chest for her whole life wanting to feel normal and pretty like all other women?
To: biblewonk
Then why not identify that "relationship" as the casuative instead of trying to prove the point this way?
This kind of "junk science" is how we got Global Warming.
I'm self-centered. In fact, I have such a high-opinion of myself that I would never want to deprive the world of my existance in it.
"Be selfless" is the cry of the communist.
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:16:59 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
To: Pharmboy
The suicide rate might have been far higher in this group if they had not been given the "lift" of a preferred body shape.
To: Hawkeye's Girl
Normal (no, not Michael Jackson) plastic surgery is not selfish THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "NORMAL" PLASTIC SURGERY!
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:19:11 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Dead Corpse
Thanks for your lesson, but I am well-aware of the limitations of observational studies, associations and causality.
And, for your benefit, you should know that no one in the article said that breast implants CAUSED suicides, only that there was an association. Think more before you act like an obnoxious pedant (note that I did not call you an obnoxious pedant, but only observed that for a brief moment you acted like one).
Best,
PB
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:19:19 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie 'cause they have to)
To: Dead Corpse
"Corellation is NOT Causation."The way I read the article, they don't seem to be implying causation. The only realtion hinted at seems to be in the psychological state of women seeking breast implants and of women committing suicide. It's like old statistics on suicides at the Golden Gate bridge. The bridge doesn't cause the suicides, but a higher than mormal number of people travelling to the bridge from across the nation are suicidal compared with the normal population. They reach the bridge and find out it's the end of their quest and, having no further goal or hope for thier lives, no place further to travel to looking for personal meaning, decide to end their lives there as well.
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:21:48 AM PST
by
templar
To: Pharmboy
"Our findings suggest there might be a psychological problem in some women,"...
Well, duh. If a woman thinks bigger boobs will make her happy, she's got major issues beyond appearance.
To: Dead Corpse
The idiots at Reuters wrote a somewhat misleading headline, which is pretty much par for the course in journalism nowadays.
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:28:33 AM PST
by
jpl
To: templar
Then why home in on the breast implant angle? Why not just say that people who do not like their bodies have more emotional problems than those who are comfortable with themselves?
The devil is ALWAYS in the details.
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:29:38 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
To: Izzy Dunne
BS. Normal = regular = usual.
Whatever you think about plastic surgery is your business, but don't try to get me in some semantic argument.
To: Pharmboy
Can those things be donated, like organs? Shame to see them go to waste.
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:32:41 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: Pharmboy
My post was for the author of this article, you'll note that I did not single you out. You posted it, I gave my response.
The premise of the study remains faulty.
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:34:54 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
To: Beelzebubba
The suicide rate might have been far higher in this group if they had not been given the "lift" of a preferred body shape.A VERY interesting comment.
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posted on
03/07/2003 7:35:31 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie 'cause they have to)
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