The Waves: The Hidden Cost of Breast Implants
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🗓️ 11 June 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate science editor and writer Shannon Palus is joined by freelance science journalist Eleanor Cummins to talk about plastics. Surgery that is. And all the physical and mental concerns that come with altering your body. They start out by talking about Eleanor’s recent piece on the health concerns of breast implants. Then they talk about VIP Syndrome, and how it’s coming for all of us.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Waves, Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and body horror. |
| 0:21.4 | Every episode you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing we can't get off of |
| 0:25.6 | our minds. |
| 0:26.9 | And today you've got me, Shannon Paulis, a senior editor at Slate covering science |
| 0:32.2 | and health. |
| 0:33.2 | And me, Elonore Cummins, a freelance science journalist for WIRE, the new republic, and |
| 0:38.2 | of course, Slate. |
| 0:40.2 | Today, we're going to be talking about the mysterious symptoms that can apparently be |
| 0:46.3 | caused by breast implants. |
| 0:49.2 | You might remember this issue from the 90s, when the FDA issued a moratorium on silicone |
| 0:55.9 | boobs, and David Schwimmer starred in a made for TV film called Breast Man. |
| 1:02.2 | Among many other cultural touchstones on this topic from the time. |
| 1:06.2 | A Texas physician and his young protease. |
| 1:09.7 | Making women's breast larger. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm very disappointed. |
| 1:13.7 | Turned that obsession. |
| 1:14.7 | She want to cut holes in the and stick bags of goo in my chest. |
| 1:18.7 | It's all right, I'm a doctor. |
| 1:20.0 | Into a global phenomenon. |
| 1:21.0 | You're going to be very rich men. |
| 1:24.7 | One of these events involved in their own ways. |
| 1:27.4 | The fact that women were complaining of symptoms like fatigue, headaches, rashes from their fake |
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