The Sunday Times is still maintaining that thalidomide had never been tested on humans.

From The Sunday Times
September 28, 2008
Thalidomide: Survival instinct
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article4818160.ece
SNIP
Found to be safe in animal trials, but never tested on humans, it was launched in 46 countries […]
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Some were abandoned by parents too traumatised to cope, or sent to special boarding schools. They were issued with painful, ill-fitting false limbs to make them look more “normal”, and well-meaning surgeons removed fingers and toes for cosmetic reasons, removing what little dexterity they had.
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Marjorie Wallace, now head of the charity Sane, who wrote the original articles, has kept in touch with many of the families. “When I first met the children at 9 and 10 years old, people believed they’d be in institutions for the rest of their lives,” she says. “If I took a child to a cafe, PEOPLE WOULD LEAVE. They couldn’t bear to look at these armless, legless bodies.
UNSNIP

Ivo:
Never tested on humans?
The whistle on thalidomide was blown at a congress of neurologists on 30 April – 1st May 1960 in Duesseldorf.

Gruenenthal only withdrew thalidomide from Europe on 27 November 1961.

Real-life testing does of course not qualify as “scientific” testing.

Just like real-life testing does not qualify as “scientific” testing,
so have René Descartes and Immanuel Kant conclusively demonstrated that sleevies must be attached to artificial limbs/prostheses,
prostheses, no hooks like in the movies.

Reality cannot bring in anything against that.

The movies have conclusively demonstrated that such a hook is useful
(in order to reduce the atrophy of the stump,
that is, in order to make the stump thicker or so).

That the hook only made the life of the thalidomide monster impossible
(and drove her to suicide at the age of eight, 8, no smiley please)
and that other children were even more afraid of the monster because of the hook
is of course of no importance whatsoever.

Of course, if the monster had been further amputated in order to fit the hooks …

Chronik des Conterganfalls
Tragödie – Katastrophe – Skandal?
http://www.wdr.de/themen/gesundheit/pharmazie/contergan/chronik.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=contergan
SNIPS
30. April/1. Mai 1960:
Auf einem Neurologen-Kongress in Düsseldorf berichtet der Neurologe Ralf Voss über die Nervenschädigungen, die seinen
Beobachtungen zufolge durch Thalidomid verursacht werden. Die Forschungsabteilung von Grünenthal versucht daraufhin, die Nervenschädigungen an Ratten zu reproduzieren – ohne Erfolg. Grünenthal-Forschungsleiter Mückter schließt daraus, dass es sich um besondere Situationen handelt, für die Contergan nur selten als Ursache infrage kommt.
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27. November 1961:
Die Firma Grünenthal kündigt in einem Telegramm an das Düsseldorfer Innenministerium an, ihre Thalidomid-Präparate im In- und Ausland sofort aus dem Handel zu nehmen.
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30. November 1961:
Eine Sachverständigen-Kommission, die das NRW-Innenministerium eingerufen hat, kommt zusammen. Die Experten erklären es für wahrscheinlich, dass Thalidomid Missbildungen hervorruft.Das amerikanische Arzneimittelunternehmen informiert Richardson-Merrill die US-Gesundheitsbehörde über die Ereignisse in Deutschland und zieht vier Monate später seinen Antrag auf Zulassung von Thalidomid zurück
Ivo:

If this German link does not work, try entering the title of the article in
http://www.google.de/

For example, girls who are born without or with impaired limbs are forced to wear prostheses when they are still infants, while reliable research has proved that this is detrimental to their identity development and results in more harm than help. Often these children are amputated in order to fit into the prostheses
(Womens Issues:
Disabled Women and the Right to Health Care
By Theresia Degener (degener AT efh-bochum DOT de)
Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, School of Law
Professor of Law, Administration and Organization at University of Applied Sciences, Bochum, Germany
Presented at Hunter College, June 7th, 2000, New York
http://www.disabilityworld.org/Aug-Sept2000/Women/HealthCare.htm