Thalidomide

WATCH: Thalidomide – Still with us half a century later

This revealing documentary from German channel DW looks into the Thalidomide tragedy, the people who survived it and the bad science and greed that enabled it. From the YouTube description: The German pharmaceutical company Grünenthal marketed thalidomide world-wide starting in 1957. Pregnant women used the sleeping pill, which had been deemed so harmless it was …

A Vaxxing Question

By Suzie Halewood | OffGuardian | May 3, 2021 In 1956 German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal GmbH, licensed a new experimental drug designed to treat colds, flu, nausea and morning sickness. Known as Distaval in the UK, Distillers Biochemicals Ltd declared the drug could ‘be given with complete safety to pregnant women and nursing mothers […]