The often-brilliant John Stossel is out with a review of the new box-office smash, Jurassic World. The movie, like many others, bashes corporations.
Stossel briefly discusses the 2000 film “Erin Brockovich,” which was nominated for Best Picture and which garnered actress Julia Roberts with numerous “best actress” awards:
In the movies, anti-business activists like Erin Brockovich are depicted as lifesavers. Brockovich, a hustler for personal injury lawyers, used her ample charm and cleavage to recruit clients who sued Pacific Gas and Electric, claiming the power company gave them cancer.
That was highly unlikely, given that the accused chemical, hexavalent chromium, causes cancer only at much higher doses. PG&E workers, despite being exposed to much more of it, live longer than average.
But Brockovich still got PG&E to pay out over $300 million, of which she got $2 million. That makes her a hero?
