The Thalidomide scandal that caused babies to be disabled after their mothers took the medication.
(www.sciencemuseum.org.uk)
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Covered up by Govt because the U.K. agents for Eli Lily were distillers
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/25/distillers-knew-risk-of-thalidomide-six-months-before-it-was-pulled-says-book
Distillers were/ are the supplier of most of the worlds spirits.
At the time a lot of politicians were family members of the spirit companies. They met in their mahogany and leather London Clubs and decided they would deny it.
In the 1860s William Morris ( Designer) had an investment in an Arsenic mine and the arsenic was used to give vibrant colour to wallpaper.
Wealthy became ill the means to pinpoint blame wasn’t there , he escaped blame.
Same people, same modus operandi .