Why We Should Care About Roberts's Lie About Cosmetics Lobbying

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Subject: Why We Should Care About Roberts's Lie About Cosmetics Lobbying

Roberts is showing how he fits in with the Busheviks - another liar.

Like his friends' lies, Roberts is trying to conceal the extent to which he is on the wrong side of issues that the public cares about.

His work for the cosmetics industry paid well but it put him in opposition to public health issues that are deadly for millions of women today.

Breast Cancer Action placed a quarter-page advertisement in The New York Times posing the question, “The Cosmetics Industry and Breast Cancer: Philanthropy or Hypocrisy?”

It pointed out that while major cosmetics companies—from Avon and Revlon to Estée Lauder—are marketing pink-ribbon products to “support the fight against breast cancer,” dozens of their products contain chemicals that may be linked to breast cancer. BCA called for these industry leaders to phase out these chemicals altogether, noting that corporate conscience belongs in a company’s products. BCA points out that the Cosmetics lobby uses its own dishonest research. People like Roberts help these kinds of strategies.

"... The Cosmetic, Toiletry & Fragrance Association (CTFA) established the Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) to assess the safety of ingredients used in cosmetics ... Cosmetic companies often rely on the scientific expertise of the CIR to back up their claims that their products are safe, but since the CIR is funded and directed by those same companies, its findings and recommendations often puts the companies' interests ahead of consumer health. "

In fact some lawyer told the industry and the companies that supply the ingredients to even claim that the chemicals PROTECT against breast cancer, a notion completely unsupported. BCA's view of these criminals:

The suggestion that phthalates may be protective for breast cancer is reminiscent of a claim made several years ago by a senior official at the National Cancer Institute that the evidence about the massive dioxin exposure in Seveso, Italy. The official claimed that dioxin—now a proven carcinogen—was protective against breast cancer. We know now that that claim proved to be wrong—dead wrong.

The point is not that there is conclusive science. The point is that our government takes the view that corporations can do anything they want, and then if people start to die they might change. No FDA regulation, and of course no lawsuits - that would be tort abuse.

For more information - and the science that BCA uses for their concerns.

Cosmetics Companies and Breast Cancer (BCA site)

Roberts Failed to Disclose Lobbyist Work (AP/Washington Post)

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