Missing from the lifestyle pages: the evidence of how Boob Job works

[HuckleB]

Enough to make your décolletage blush: cosmetics firm threatens plastic surgeon who doubts breast cream boasts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/13/bad-science-rodial-boob-job

"If science has any credibility, it derives from transparency. When you make a claim about how something works, you provide references to experiments, describing what was done so it can be replicated, detailing what was measured and how. Then people discuss what they think it means in the real world.

Maria Hatzistefanis is a star of lifestyle pages and the owner of Rodial, the cosmetics company that sells a product called Boob Job which, it claims, will give you a "fuller bust" "increase the bust size" and "plump up the décolleté area" with "an instant lifting and firming effect", and deliver an increase of half a cup size in 56 days. Or rather an increase of "8.4%". It's all very precise.

I'm not going to lose sleep over anybody who buys a magic cream to make their breasts grow bigger. What worries me is that Hatzistefanis's company is making libel threats against a doctor, simply for daring to voice doubts at these claims.

This is her crime. Dr Dalia Nield, a plastic surgeon, told the Daily Mail it was "highly unlikely" the cream would make your breasts bigger, and questioned the amount of information provided by Rodial. "The manufacturers are not giving us any information on tests they have carried out. They are not telling us the exact ingredients in the product and how they increase the size of the breast."

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I don't know whether to :rofl: or to :cry: ... At least, for once, this isn't happening in the US.

[DCKit]

1. I really thought this was a political post. n/t

[HuckleB]

3. It isn't?

:shrug:

[Uben]

2. Just use toilet paper!

A man was listening to his wife complain that she needed a boob job. He said, "Honey, just take a few sheets of toilet paper and rub it between your breasts a couple of times a day and your breasts will get bigger." The wife replied. "How is that going to help enlarge my breasts?" The man quickly replied, "Well, look what it has done for your ass!"

[Warpy]

4. The flowers were lovely

and the funeral service was moving.