Escalating an attack on scientific studies, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has sued four doctors who published studies citing links between talc-based personal care products and cancer, news agency Reuters has said. According to the Reuter’s report, J&J's subsidiary LTL Management, which absorbed the firm's talc liability in a controversial 2021 spinoff, last week filed a lawsuit in New Jersey federal court asking it to force three researchers to "retract and/or issue a correction" of a study that said asbestos-contaminated consumer talc products sometimes caused patients to develop mesothelioma.