>>And the movie brought out other issues to me.. Here a outspoken and brash person recognizes the morality of an issue before most, makes waves and p!sses people off.. Until it turns out, she was right.. And then I imagine, ALL people jump on the morality band wagon, after it was SAFE..
I imagine the polite establishment people, would not dare take a stand like this in real life, but cheered her on in the Virtual..because it was SAFE.
Yes, it does sound like the typical made-for-TV movie.
....The Hinkley case is hardly the first in which huge amounts of money have been handed to sick or allegedly sick plaintiffs and their lawyers without scientific proof or even strong evidence. Dow Corning handed trial lawyers and their clients billions even though the evidence that silicone implants are safe has become overwhelming. PG&E simply made the monetary decision that giving up a third of a billion which it could then (unlike Dow) simply pass on to utility rate payers, made more sense than leaving things up to the whims of an arbitrator trained not in science or medicine but in law.
Brockovich and Praglin think they have a smoking gun in the words of PG&E's CEO, that the utility "did not respond to the groundwater problem as openly, quickly, or thoroughly as it should have. . . . It is clear, in retrospect, that our company should have handled some things differently. . . ."
Sorry guys, that's called simple good PR language, without the least admission of any harm to health.
The real story of Erin Brockovich is simply this. A woman with no medical background goes to a small town and convinces residents that virtually every illness they've ever had, from cancer to rashes, are all related and all caused by a nearby corporation worth almost $30 billion. Join our suit, she says, and I'll get you megabucks. They do, they get a settlement, and Brockovich's colleagues snatch away a cut of over $133 million. Brockovich gets more than $2 million. Only in Hollywood could such a person be made a heroine.
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