https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
The US FDA refused to approve thalidomide for marketing and distribution. However, the drug was distributed in large quantities for testing purposes, after the American distributor and manufacturer Richardson-Merrell had applied for its approval in September 1960.[citation needed] The official in charge of the FDA review, Frances Oldham Kelsey, did not rely on information from the company, which did not include any test results. Richardson-Merrell was called on to perform tests and report the results. The company demanded approval six times, and was refused each time. Nevertheless, a total of 17 children with thalidomide-induced malformations were born in the US. Oldham Kelsey was given a Presidential award for distinguished service from the federal government for not allowing thalidomide to be approved for sale in the US.[40]
This is actually one of the few times the FDA stepped up and did their job. Thalidomide was approved almost everywhere EXCEPT in the US. However, there had been some doctors in the US who were prescribing it anyway AND it had been up for review as well.
They gave the case to a new FDA employee named Frances Oldham Kelsey. They figured it would be a no-brainer to approve but she actually did some digging. Despite the “science being settled “ about how safe thalidomide was, it turned out not to be the case. JFK thanked her personally. Search Thalidomide documentary if you can stomach seeing what this drug has done to thousands of humans in their one life on this earth. It is heart wrenching. And so was the trial.
These FDA approved calamities need to be memes. Every single one of them. Imagine how much value there will be in the FDA if folks have all this truth in front of them.
Thalidomide was approved by the UK equivalent of the US FDA. It's called MHRA now but probably something different back in the 1950s. Whoever, they were obviously asleep at the wheel and the US got very lucky. I went to school with a couple of victims.
Shit like this is why we need a downvote button on the community skin.
You beat the normie to this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide The US FDA refused to approve thalidomide for marketing and distribution. However, the drug was distributed in large quantities for testing purposes, after the American distributor and manufacturer Richardson-Merrell had applied for its approval in September 1960.[citation needed] The official in charge of the FDA review, Frances Oldham Kelsey, did not rely on information from the company, which did not include any test results. Richardson-Merrell was called on to perform tests and report the results. The company demanded approval six times, and was refused each time. Nevertheless, a total of 17 children with thalidomide-induced malformations were born in the US. Oldham Kelsey was given a Presidential award for distinguished service from the federal government for not allowing thalidomide to be approved for sale in the US.[40]
This is actually one of the few times the FDA stepped up and did their job. Thalidomide was approved almost everywhere EXCEPT in the US. However, there had been some doctors in the US who were prescribing it anyway AND it had been up for review as well.
They gave the case to a new FDA employee named Frances Oldham Kelsey. They figured it would be a no-brainer to approve but she actually did some digging. Despite the “science being settled “ about how safe thalidomide was, it turned out not to be the case. JFK thanked her personally. Search Thalidomide documentary if you can stomach seeing what this drug has done to thousands of humans in their one life on this earth. It is heart wrenching. And so was the trial.
When I was a kid, my mother took me to see a man play guitar, who had no arms. When the mRNA shot came out, this was the first thing I thought of.
Was it FDA approved back then? I thought that it was not. (I mean, I get the point of the meme, don't get me wrong.)
These FDA approved calamities need to be memes. Every single one of them. Imagine how much value there will be in the FDA if folks have all this truth in front of them.
There are plenty of examples, even as recent as aspertame.
Thalidomide was approved by the UK equivalent of the US FDA. It's called MHRA now but probably something different back in the 1950s. Whoever, they were obviously asleep at the wheel and the US got very lucky. I went to school with a couple of victims.
Vioxx was an approved and many died using it...