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Digging into the history of an infamous pharmaceutical scandal. It was said to be safe & effective. Sound familiar?
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Thalidomide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide ↩
Chemie Grünenthal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnenthal ↩
“From the Holocaust to Thalidomide: A Nazi Legacy” - AHRP January 10, 2014: https://ahrp.org/from-the-holocaust-to-thalidomide-a-nazi-legacy/ ↩
Martin Staemmler: https://cau.gelehrtenverzeichnis.de/person/d6d1cbfd-107c-ac94-8bd4-4d4c60af34df?lang=de ↩
Thalidomide’s Secret Past: The Link with Nazi Germany: https://www.oncozine.com/thalidomides-secret-past-the-link-with-nazi-germany/ ↩
Thalidomide Brands: https://web.archive.org/web/20140303080734/http://www.thalidomideuk.com/thalidomidebrands.htm ↩
Drug discovery : a history - Sneader, 2005: https://archive.org/details/drugdiscoveryhis00snea/page/n379/mode/2up?q=thalidomide ↩
The last German war secret - Herald Sun, June 27, 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20120415072228/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/the-last-german-war-secret/story-e6frf7jo-1226082393923 ↩
“GDR citizens slept without thalidomide”: https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/120351.ddr-buerger-schliefen-ohne-contergan.html ↩
Canadian Thalidomide Experience - 1963 Special Report: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1921912/pdf/canmedaj01021-0028.pdf ↩
Dark Remedy - Stephens & Brynner, 2001: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200107193450319 ↩
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime - Dr Peter Gøtzsche: https://www.amazon.com.au/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844 ↩
Summary of Cochrane’s show trial and illegal expulsion of Peter C Gøtzsche: https://www.deadlymedicines.dk/ ↩
HPV vaccination to prevent cancer and pre-cancerous changes of the cervix - Cochrane 2018: https://www.cochrane.org/CD009069/GYNAECA_hpv-vaccination-prevent-cancer-and-pre-cancerous-changes-cervix ↩
The Cochrane HPV vaccine review was incomplete and ignored important evidence of bias - https://ebm.bmj.com/content/ebmed/23/5/165.full.pdf ↩
Virus Mania - 3rd English edition. ↩
Daily Mail - 1 September 2012: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2196689/Thalidomide-German-firm-invented-birth-defect-drug-apologises-time-50-years.html ↩
A Detailed History and Timeline by Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds OBE: https://www.rms-consultancy.co.uk/personnel/thalidomide-detailed-history-and-timeline/ ↩
GSK Hid Morning Sickness Drug's Birth Defect Risks: Suit: https://www.law360.com/articles/280573/gsk-hid-morning-sickness-drug-s-birth-defect-risks-suit ↩
From the Holocaust to Thalidomide: A Nazi Legacy - Dr Judy Stone: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/molecules-to-medicine/from-the-holocaust-to-thalidomide-a-nazi-legacy/ ↩
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