Tag: Stalin

Political Thalidomide: The Deliberate Corruption of Science and State

The Bitter Pill In the late 1950s, a German pharmaceutical company, Chemie Grünenthal, executed a masterful market strategy. It launched a new sedative, thalidomide, as a "wonder drug" for anxiety, insomnia, and, most lucratively, morning sickness. The public was assured it was so astonishingly safe it could be sold without…