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Sorry JnJ, It’s 49 Years too Late
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Sorry JnJ, It’s 49 Years too Late
Did you see this?
The Lancet has just retracted a 1977 commentary claiming asbestos-contaminated talc was safe.
Nearly 50 years later…. Yes thats right 50 years.
The reason? Undisclosed conflicts of interest and breaches of publication ethics. A paper that helped shape perception around safety—allowed to stand for decades.
Now think about who benefited.
Johnson & Johnson wasn’t just another company. It sold itself as the trusted name in family care.
I’m of the age where every mum trusted it. We grew up with it.
Baby powder was part of daily life—we literally left clouds of talc in our wake without a second thought. It was associated with care, cleanliness, and safety. No one questioned it. Why would we?
And yet, over the years, lawsuits, internal documents, and investigations have raised deeply uncomfortable questions:
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What was known about contamination—and when?
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Why did concerns take so long to surface publicly?
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How did trusted institutions and publications reinforce that safety narrative?
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How many ovarian cancer deaths can be attributed to talc, the author of “no more tears” says up to 15%. of cases can be attributed to the use of talc.
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Why did the FDA not shout from the rooftops about the dangers. (Hint, listen to the podcast in the comments from No More Tears Author)
This isn’t just about one retraction.
It’s about a system where:
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A major journal can take decades to correct the record
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A trusted brand can face years of allegations before real scrutiny
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And the public is expected to move on once it’s quietly “fixed”
When I look at some of the old adverts for talc they make me feel so angry,
I think part of it is because I was someone that just trusted in those days, and I know that so many young mom’s today still trust … the doctors, the big companies, the media and more.
Do we need to see people jailed at this point for any real change to happen?
I think this retraction is happening because Johnson and Johnson’s defence and lies are falling apart and the Lancet is trying to be ahead of the curve.
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Link to the podcast with No More Tears author : https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5359006/no-more-tears-author-discusses-johnson-johnsons-questionable-business-practices
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Sigh. My dad died at 69 from cancer. He had stopped in 62 or 64 at the same time the warning label was placed on the cigarette box according to my mom. Even though I’m sure he was addicted apparently some people actually took warnings seriously. How hard did that industry fight truth? I remember asking the CNAs not to place powder directly on women’s perineum after witnessing the dust storm. Within a year of that, powder disappeared from our carts with no notification.
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The responsibility is also with consumers. I am 63, I raised 2 kids, and I did not use talc powder at any stage because… I picked up back then that there was a risk attached. And in case of any doubt, that was a no go. There was an alternative… silver powder from Wala. Was it because I always tended to watch the space and distrust the chemical industry and big companies? I had early contact with homeopathy and naturopaths, I read books about holisitic healing and anthroposophy , I was lucky to be gifted a book of Dr Wilhelm zur Linden, about birth and childhood. It enabled and reassured me to take things into my own hands, as far as this was possible, I searched for doctors of general medicine who at least had a certain awareness of holistic healing. I never handed fully over responsibility for my life, the life of my children and their upbringing. And even now I pick up again studying better ways, by attending online courses about nutritional endocrinology, in plain words, healing with food first. I hope to cause ripple effects in the community around me, making others aware that it is about our daily choices in the first place. I want to say thank you to IMA, which I encountered back then in an unspeakable era of our times, as FLCCC, I was holding on to the information I could gather, again, the information was there. When others think of retiring, I will finally take the time that will be gifted to me, to spread the word about what each and everyone can do to improve, instead of working to just survive and see others suffering, again, because the knowledge is not reaching them.
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Good for you Peara. Unfortunately a huge majority of our generation, myself included I am 65, grew up in an era that trusted, had no reason to doubt, our government agencies. Lots of them. They were created to help protect us. From food poisoning, e-coli, botulism, cholera, salmonella, toxic chemical poisoning, deadly childhood illnesses, etc etc etc. USDA, FDA, CPSC, EPA, FTC, CDC. Why on earth would they want to hurt or endanger us??? Or allow any entity to do that???
It took COVID to open my eyes. Wide open.
It was shocking. It took a lot for me to come to the conclusion that our government was actually lying to us about almost everything to do with both the illness and the vaccines. Before that it never ever ever occurred to me that my government would lie about things like that. But they did. They lied about or supported lies of others about EVERYTHING. The origin of the virus, how the virus spreads, what we needed to do to protect ourselves from catching it, at home treatments if you got infected, the effectiveness of the vaccines, the safety of the vaccines. EVERYTHING.
So now I will never ever again believe anything they tell me. I will question everything.
And I never expected anyone else to be responsible for making decisions about my children. But I did expect that I would get good reliable medical advice from licensed practicing MD’s!! Again, why on earth would they not be honest about my child’s health??? Another lesson learned.
The COVID era was frightening…appalling…sickening…scary. But when I look back on it, the one positive thing that came of it was exposing the systemic lies and corruption in our regulatory agencies, our research institutions, and our medical profession.
JNJ needs to be made to pay until the cows come home.
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Very well said. It’s a little too much to have put that responsibility on all consumers and asked them to be “conspiracy believers” before having any info to trigger distrust.
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agreed!
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What’s really interesting about this is that when I was in law school (early 90’s) my OBGYN told me (very sternly) to stop using baby powder. I did but I thought he was a grouch so I stopped seeing him. He was right. Good doc. Makes me wonder what the medical community really knew (e.g., what were they seeing?).
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Great point, I think many of them knew about the harms, but just like today kept their heads down rather than face ridicule, or much worse.
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