Tit jokes?! From the Hudson Institute?!

Black magic shouldn’t keep breast implants banned (Townhall.com)
By Michael Fumento

For the record, I have no strong opinions about silicone breast implants one way or the other. (However, like Peggy Hill, I pity the poor fool who asks me my shoe size.) So, I'm not going to challenge Mr. Fumento on the facts he asserts (with one exception), but on his tone (sophomoric).

An FDA advisory panel just voted 7-2 to lift the 13-year ban on the use of silicone-gel breast implants. But the agency has a history of rejecting its panel’s decisions on the devices. It thus remains to be seen whether it will listen to science and reason, or whether yet again it will be a boob and be swayed by anti-implant lobbyists and anecdotal reports equating ruptured implants with black magic.

Here's some more on boobs and black magic.

Time for that ol’ black magic! CNN.com titillated us with news of a woman who complained of “yellow strings of silicone oozing from her eyes.” The New York Times kept readers abreast of women who “gave gruesome testimony about silicone from ruptured implants squeezing out of their eyes and ears.” In fact, silicone from a ruptured implant usually stays put because built-up body tissue “encapsulates” it. When gel does migrate, it remains localized. It does not go to the head. [emph added]

Now, this made me curious. Did anybody test the material that was oozing out of these women's eyes and ears? If the material was tested, was silicone present?

Well, Fumento's not saying. If we're that interested then we'll just have to do our own ooze sleuthing.

Just who is Michael Fumento? The column bio lists him as the author of Silicone Breast Implants: Why Has Science Been Ignored? (can't say I'm surprised) and as a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. So I checked out the Hudson Institute website, where I clicked on the "Find an Expert" icon. (This is fun. Need an expert for your side? Then just click the button.) So I clicked the button, and there he was: on-call expert for science and technology, health, legal issues, environmental issues, and biotechnology -- I guess they forgot to list "boobs."

Oh, and listed among Fumento's numerous publications is The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, published by Regnery, of course.