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by p_ing 136 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
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lotsofpulp 136 days ago
That specific medicine is about a molecule that was insufficiently vetted.

It does not seem as egregious as the risk of getting medication made in other countries. As far as I know, all the patented medicine comes from barely audited factories in places like India anyway.

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p_ing 135 days ago
Yes, it was insufficiently vetted. And the FDA blocked it because of that. Yet we have people wanting to repeat the same mistakes.

Like FAA rules, FDA rules are written in someone’s blood. Someone died for those rules so we don’t have to experience the same consequences.

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Dylan16807 135 days ago
> Yet we have people wanting to repeat the same mistakes.

They were talking about a whole different set of rules.

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