NEWS: Breast Implants Linked to Higher Suicide Rates

Mastectomy are a totally different thing, I think it is understood we are talking only of people that do it for vanity.

I read a similar thing in a clever philosophy primer. Say a study finds a significant correllation between necatrines and nosebleeds. Does that prove nectarines cause nosebleeds? Actually, it turns out to be the opposite. People with a vitamin X deficiency are more prone to nosebleeds and nectarines have a small amount of X. People with vitamin X deficiency tend to seek out nectarines when their X is low and without nectarines, there would actually be more nosebleeds.

One thing I've noticed on SG (and other message boards) is that stories about scientific studies tend to be greeted smugly if it's what the reader wants to hear and derisively if it's not. The smugs say, "See? Told you so!" and the derisives try to question the science of the study. Not to say that everyone here is doing that, there's actually some good discussion going on in this thread.

American Journal of Epidemiology, with the study being performed by the Public Health Agency of Canada in Ottawa

That is like the reports were someone says "99% of serial killers use pornography" or "95% of heroin users say they have used marijuana"
How many porn users never kill anyone and how many pot smokers never use hard drugs?
It is a funny game.
BTW I am right 99% of the time

Okay . . . I'm not going to be able to stay as objective as I'd like to stay if we get into personal experience with what I see this study and its implications as being about, so I'm going to go back and think for awhile and see whether I can articulate what I'm getting at better than I guess I did. I feel like this tattoo-plastic surgery comparison is missing a really fundamental point here, and I need to figure out how to state what I think that is--or hope that someone else can do it in the interim.

. . . Which, of course, means that people from Minneapolis are right 99% of the time.

Ahh, statistics and correlations. They are a fun game, aren't they?

This isn't new

Breast implants can save lives too!

Exactly.

So these are the "new" suicide blondes.

You might as well give yourself 99.9% Necia , as I have noticed you are right slightly more often then me.

This association is soooo out of line.