From the Los Angeles Times:<\/i>
\nA glamorous drug, an illness, a very public battle<\/b>
\nBy Gina Piccalo, Times Staff Writer<\/p>\n
Even before “Mr. Botox” returned from Europe to take the stand and Vanna White showed up, the judge braced the jury for something special. “You’ll remember this for a long time,” he said.<\/p>\n
Indeed, history is being made this month in Los Angeles County Superior Court, as Botox goes on trial for the first time in its brief but glamorous life as America’s favorite antiwrinkle treatment.<\/p>\n
Hollywood socialite Irena Medavoy, wife of film producer Mike Medavoy, is suing celebrity dermatologist Arnold Klein and Botox’s manufacturer, Allergan Inc., claiming the drug caused myriad illnesses, including a four-month migraine so severe it left her bedridden, barely able to lift her head from the pillow.<\/p>\n
(blah blah blah….the article continues for a long time from here…blah blah blah)<\/p>\n
Botox is fucking botulism. People are injecting themselves with botulism to rid wrinkles. The wrinkles disappear because they can’t handle botulism. Botulism kills people. What the fuck do these people expect when they fill their bodies with BOTULISM? I can’t wait until 2046 when I read a similar article about people becoming surprisingly sick from the new diet fad, AIDS.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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