[ok, ok,....I get it]

Originally Posted by Suzles

It was developed by the Germans (not the Nazis) and was available in the late 1950's to early 1960's. In ALL the animal testing done there were never any abnormalities in offspring. Children were however born with terrible deformities. It was this drug that set in motion the current anti animal testing lobby to this day. http://www.thalidomide.ca/en/informa...alidomide.html

It was EXACTLY what I was talking about. If it wasn't what you were talking about then I don't know what to say. Let some of the worst of the criminal element be given the chance to redeem some of themselves by volunteering for drug testing.

I wonder if you have really thought that through. Sounds like bravado to me. Heard it all before.

not according to wikipedia (which could be wrong)

Thalidomide was said to have been developed by German pharmaceutical company Grünenthal in Stolberg (Rhineland) near Aachen, although this claim has recently been challenged. A report published by Dr Martin W Johnson, director of the Thalidomide Trust in the UK, detailed evidence that suggested the drug had been developed under the direction of a Nazi scientist in 1944, as an antidote to nerve gases such as sarin, ten years before Grünenthal secured a patent in 1954.[8] Thalidomide was found to act as an effective tranquiliser and painkiller and was proclaimed as a "wonder drug" for insomnia, coughs, colds and headaches. It was also found to be an effective antiemetic which had an inhibitory effect on morning sickness, and so thousands of pregnant women took the drug to relieve their symptoms.[4] At the time of the drug's development it was not thought likely that any drug could pass from the mother across the placental barrier and harm the developing foetus.[7]