Camilla Cavendish, did the press ever expose thalidomide?
Posted by Ivo Cerckel on January 19th, 2012
Honest Money, Dishonest UK-of-NI-and-GB press!
Camilla Cavendish asks this morning in The Times whether the press could expose thalidomide today,
Could the press expose thalidomide today?
Camilla Cavendish
January 19 2012 12:01AM
http://www.thetimes.co..uk/tto/opinion/columnists/camillacavendish/article3291072.ece
Did the press ever warn about thalidomide?
The whistle on thalidomide was blown
on 30 April – 1 May 1960 at a Düsseldorf congress of neurologists
by neurologist, Dr Ralf Voss (1)
Googling (google.co.uk) for “press exposed thalidomide” gives as first result the so-called independent UK-of-NI-and-GB newspaper saying that William McBride was the Australian doctor who first alerted the world to the dangers of the thalidomide drug,
Wikipedia “William McBride_(doctor)” says that McBride’s public thalidomide-concerns came only in 1961.
Where was the press in the meantime?
Was it that Dr Ralf Voss “only” said that thalidomide attacked the nervous system of the …
mother
and thus did not say that thalidomide attacked the
foetus?
Harold Evans, the editor of the Sunday Times “in tempore VERY suspecto”, fails in his 2009 Memoirs “My Paper Chase” to give exact thalidomide dates.
Quousque tandem … ?
You bastards! I don’t apologise for this B-word.
Honest Money, Dishonest UK-of-NI-and-GB press!
Ivo Cerckel
honestmoney@maktoob.com
NOTE
(1)
Chronik des Conterganfalls
Tragödie – Katastrophe – Skandal?
http://www1.wdr.de/themen/archiv/sp_contergan/contergan176.html
[this URL changer very often]
SNIP
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.
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