Thalidomide was more of a result of sloppy science then anything else. They did animal testing and the birth deformity issues never came up because they didn't test the drug on pregnant animals.
Once the drug was pulled off of the market and tested on pregnant animals the birth defects were identified in the test animals.
The error would have happened on human test subjects using the sloppy methods used to initially test the drug because they wouldn't have tested on human pregnant females.
The Thalidomide issue was more based on lax regulations and poor testing methods as oppossed to the failure of using animals to test drugs.
What the Thalidomide situation does is call for more thourough testing of drugs which would in effect call for the use of more animal experimentation and not less.
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