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Originally Posted by ok, ok,....I get it

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]

Here are some none Wiki sources (just so whoever can't say that Wiki is easily edited)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle5683577.ece
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...-23289,00.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_0007...l_weapons.html