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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/ ↩
Dr Isaac Featherston, the editor of the Wellington Independent, strongly attacked the New Zealand Company’s land policy in his newspaper on 24 March 1847. Colonel William Wakefield, the Company’s Principal Agent in New Zealand, interpreted this editorial as a thinly disguised accusation that he was a thief. He challenged Featherston to a duel that apparently took place at Te Aro…