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This article claims that doctors and personal injury lawyers collude to win asbestos and mesothelioma lawsuits.

In an unholy alliance between a few opportunistic members of the medical community and a handful of super-wealthy asbestos lawyers, healthy people taking chest exams bought and paid for by law firms almost always receive positive indications of asbestos injury. Doctors and radiologists have even been paid more for positive results than negative results and some physicians have certified hundreds of people a day as positive for asbestos damage to the lungs without ever examining a single patient. Hundreds and sometimes thousands of these plaintiffs are then included in lawsuits against companies that have little if any relationship to asbestos or products containing asbestos.

The latest evidence of distorted legal evidence comes from scientists working for and with Johns Hopkins University, who were asked by beleaguered asbestos defendants to examine the legitimacy of radiology findings by plaintiffs' experts in asbestos cases. The results seem to indicate more than professional disagreement over ambiguous diagnoses. Independent radiologists were asked to review 492 chest films without being told the X-rays were evidence in asbestos lawsuits. They found only 4.5 percent positive for asbestos damage while radiologists employed by plaintiff lawyers found 96 percent positive for asbestos. These results mirror similar findings reached by the RAND Corp. in recent years. Serious questions of the validity of testing and suspicions of manufactured evidence also have emerged recently in a similar silica lawsuit being heard in a Corpus Christi federal courtroom.

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