For the World Health Organisation, the concept of right and wrong has to be eradicated.
Hence, the WHO did nothing to prevent thalidomide from staying 18 months on the market after its dangers had been pointed out on 1st May 1960.

In an 18 July 2009 post, I argued that I am a thalidomide monster because of the World Health Organisation. (1)

My argument ran as follows:
I was born in February 1962.
The dangers of thalidomide were known since at least 1st May 1960.
The World Health Organisation only recommended banning thalidomide in 1961.
(Thalidomide was eventually taken from the market by its manufacturer on 27 November 1961.)

Now,
Dr. George Brock Chisholm CC (1896-05-18 – 1971-02-04) was the first director-general of the WHO. (2)

His term ran from 1948 to 1953. (3)

The guy was a psycho-analyst who advocated no less that the eradication of the concept of right and wrong. He maintained that it is the task of the psychiatrist to free the human race from the crippling burden of good and evil. (4)

This guy said
“Instead of bringing our children up according to our own preconceived rules of good and bad we must teach them to question everything. Tell your child you believe in God, point out that some people don’t” (2, again)
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“The re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the certainties of the old people, these are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy.” (2 again)

Now, I understand why the WHO did nothing against thalidomide.

There is no right and wrong for the WHO.

Ivo Cerckel
honestmoney@maktoob.com
http://twitter.com/ivocerckel/

NOTES

(1)
I am a thalidomide monster because of WHO
Posted by Ivo Cerckel on July 18th, 2009
http://bphouse.com/honest_money/2009/07/18/i-am-thalidomide-monster-because-of-who/
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(2)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brock_Chisholm
Dr. George Brock Chisholm CC (1896-05-18 – 1971-02-04) was a Canadian First World War veteran, medical practitioner and the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).

(3)
Dr B. Chisholm
Canada
Term of office: 1948-1953
Former Directors-General
http://www.who.int/dg/former/en/

(4)
F.A. Hayek, (W.W. Bartley III, ed.), “The Fatal Conceit – The Errors of Socialism”, The University of Chicago Press, 1989 (originally published 1988, paperback edition 1991), p. 58