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The amount of warnings not to take while pregnant on this pack of thalidomide. (It's still useful for treating certain cancers) (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[–] 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Thalidomide was first developed as a tranquilizer by Swiss pharmaceutical company Ciba in 1953. In 1954, Ciba abandoned the product, and it was acquired by German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal.[4] The company had been established by Hermann Wirtz Sr, a Nazi Party member, after World War II as a subsidiary of the family's Mäurer & Wirtz company. The company's initial aim was to develop antibiotics for which there was an urgent market need.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal

I start to think that those Nazi people made bad thing happening on earth

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    The problem with this logic is that it extends to literally every business that existed in Germany during or immediately after WWII. The guy who exposed thalidomide as a teratogen and all but stopped its use worldwide had also been a Nazi. In reality, the pharmaceutical industry in all countries in the 40s and 50s had few to no guardrails and they caused a lot of inadvertent damage

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