Thalidomide, Corporate Criminality, & Corruption

You might have heard of the pharmaceutical thalidomide before, along with the terrible birth defects it caused. But how was this drug developed? How did its teratogenic (causing birth defects and abnormalities) effects go unnoticed? How did the 100,000 pregnancies affected by this drug and 10,000 infants born live with birth defects go unnoticed by …

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