It is terrifying how psychotic the legal industry has become on damage litigation.

There is an entire sector of the legal industry devoted solely to asbestos lawsuits. Entire firms that do nothing but this, some of them breaking in their second generation of attorneys. This, despite the fact that the dangers of long-fiber asbestos were never that great under normal use. This lunacy is destroying large industries, and costing hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of jobs a year. I wish I could locate the article I read on this recently.

The immunity of this legal industry to scientific reality is also frightening. Lawsuits continue in cases like silicone implants, where scientists show that there is no damage involved, and never has been. Yet the lawsuits proceed.

Reality has nothing to do with it anymore.

We have just begun to see the damage this kind of thing is doing.