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...Breast-Implant Accord...
...record settlement that must still be approved by a federal judge, Dow Corning, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Baxter Healthcare -- makers of silicone breast implants -- agreed to pay some $4 billion over 30 years to the thousands of women who claim that they were made sick by the implants...
Maybe not. But last week, after the Chicago Tribune broke the news of Poisson's misconduct, it was clear that his "white lies" were a breach of science's code of honor. Physicians were aghast, government officials were embarrassed, and breast-cancer victims were fretting about whether they had received the best treatment. Coming in the wake of a whole series of highly publicized allegations of fraud in the scientific world -- some unjustified -- the clear-cut case against Poisson dealt a new blow to the reputation of the research community. Said a federal scientist involved with the investigation: "This...
...Poisson affair was so unsettling because his work dealt with matters of life and death. One of his main studies was part of the research that led in 1985 to a major change in the way surgeons treat breast cancer. Until that time, patients almost always had the entire breast removed -- a mastectomy. But the new research showed that a less disfiguring procedure called lumpectomy -- in which only the tissue surrounding the tumor is cut out -- is just as effective when the cancer is in its early stages...
...researcher falsified a key study of breast-cancer surgery...