This guy seems to have been to school with thalidomide babies born (in the USA) before 1957.

FinallyFred’s Journal – MedHelp
Journal Entry 12/11/08
http://www.medhelp.org/user_journals/show/126275
SNIP
In the 1940s and 50s, “thalidomide was a drug used regulaarly  in the treatment of leprosy. Thalidomide was also prescribed to expectant mothers to treat morning sickness, anxiety, and insomnia. A DECADE later, the Food and Drug Administration took the drug off the market after more than 10,000 babies exposed to thalidomide in the womb were born with severe adverse thalidomide birth defects including serious malformations and limb deformities.   I am old enough to have had some of those people in my school and it was SAD SAD SAD.  That stuff was horrible, yet after seeing babies born without arms, legs, etc. -   it took the FDA over a decade to pull it from the market!   UNSNIP

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

… jusqu’au jour où le premier monstre thalidomide réapparaitra.

Ici au tiers monde, ils réapparaissent déjà

PARIS (©AFP / 02 octobre 2009 14h59)
Le thalidomide, associé dans les années 50 à de graves malformations congénitales, sera de nouveau commercialisé en France à partir du 19 octobre sous le nom Thalidomide Celgene, pour le traitement d’une forme rare de cancer, le myélome multiple, a annoncé l’agence du médicament (Afssap).
(Retour très encadré du thalidomide sur le marché du médicament 
http://www.romandie.com/infos/news2/091002125911.4l6sw89t.asp

“Imagine there’s no countries. It isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for …”
(John Lennon)
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Every mother knows that her child should not play with a toy the child does not understand. The mechanism of the biological action of thalidomide is still being debated.
Human nature is constituted as such that some individuals who have inside knowledge about the effects of thalidomide will ‘always’ deliberately and unnoticeably cause the serious harm thalidomide can ‘so easily’ cause. They do that precisely because the damage is so serious to the mother and to the child and because they can do that so easily and without being noticed. It may be that ‘in clinical trials’, thalidomide is shown to be effective against many things. But ‘in real life’, it is given to unsuspecting girls. This can be reconciled with John Lennon if one remembers that thalidomide was created by the Nazis.
Ivo Cerckel, 30 June  2009
http://bphouse.com/honest_money/human-testing/

Wir haben es nicht gewußt …

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