our workers in the years ahead but their company ignored the early warning signals in their midst no that's good old women action didn't investigate didn't talk to the mom didn't go to the hospital didn't look at the medical records didn't contact experts there were multiple of childers for grant all to cover the whole disaster short non-image second nine months after the first deformed baby was born grown and launched the lynn abide under the german market under the brand name country got going in thousand aggressive sales force whose motto was succeed at any cost continue to promote the drug cardigan they claimed it was a safe sedative especially for pregnant women suffering from morning sickness sales zoomed and a little my became a second best selling drug next to aspirin. but linda shield to helen and her husband carl hammond were determined to find out what caused their son's short arms months later they were no closer to finding an answer i know my husband had times

when he said we won't make it i think we have to get up and i said giving up. her husband soon contacted a professor of obstetrics dr video kinda lens who had received a few reports of deformed babies my father and professor lance they travel to germany and their road folks bargain and they went from one small village to another and asked are there any children with short legs or shot. and those kids were hidden away at the time in the small villages and he asked in restaurants and bars and the local police office and everybody said no not in our town and then he showed a picture of me and said this is my bari and can i please repeat my question and then they said well at the end of the road there has been a very sad incident and then he went there and drink the darn shot first thing he did was showing the picture of means that this is my son do you ourselves as a kid like this. and the people burst into tears and and children through my

children's were. called to the day our flight literally. in england was being sold under the brand name distal by the country's largest liquor manufacturer the distillers company as in germany distillers had received reports of deformed babies but had been assured by green and thought that the drug was completely safe. louise mason was one of five hundred thirty three little my babies born in england over a six and a half year period the weser only learned about the circumstances of her birth by reading her father's bestselling autobiography i haven't got any arms and i hadn't . and my dad said it was like a little flower buds. in from my arms and from my lips my dad had a look at me. and. he said my god you're not going to let this

baby live. and they say yes my mum was only twenty one and she was advised by doctors to put me away and concentrate on having another family. after eleven days in hospital her parents took louise to an institution for handicapped children where she would spend the next eighteen years of her life but louise was fortunate her father had not asked another doctor to end her life because i'm questionable. about midwives and doctors were killing disabled children. in the hospitals and the delivery rooms on a large scale in britain. in germany. and if they're probably everywhere else. in canada another armless baby was spared by

a poor ukrainian family in rural cisco. years later alvin law learned how horrified his natural parents were when he was born ultimately it was the paternal grandmother who didn't want to have anything to do with us she said you're not going to bring that devil baby home with you ease he's deformed because of a curse. the armless baby wasn't taken home after doctors warned he would never lead a normal life but after six weeks an elderly couple jack and hilda law who had already raised their own children volunteered as foster parents and got their first look at alan and i took one look and i thought no wonder nobody wants. and the next i went simpers they had a bath and dressed and hid and took their toll. well although in favor of taking him away with greater family i'm over but.

it was a baby with nobody wanted i'm sure we're going to. turn out ok. my life story shifted the moment that sophie and peter my birth father d me up. that that that is a profound chapter shift in my life because i went to live with the laws my life became this life. back. in cincinnati ohio and deeply religious roman catholic couple with six children were expecting another normal birth my mother's story is that when i was born they were not at all prepared and the doctor said joy your baby doesn't have any

legs. so she says that she took the baby me and she said well eileen is my four leaf clover. i have a sibling who told me that my father cried and that when he came home he handed me to my siblings and everyone got very upset and they said take it away. someone ripped off the blankets instead acts not a baby or something to that effect that's not our sister. that was what i was taught. as a young child. people. eileen cronan was one of several thalidomide babies born in cincinnati where an american drug company richards and merrill had their headquarters like the german

drug company merrill promoted the drug as completely safe even during pregnancy like green and merrill had no evidence to back this up. merrill applied to the federal drug administration in one nine hundred sixty for approval to bring so little mite onto the american market and was allowed to conduct clinical trials on patients across the country now it wasn't a clinical trial at all what it was was a marketing campaign trumped up to look like a clinical trial michael magazine is an australian lawyer and former investigative reporter who spent years researching the thalidomide disaster what merrill wanted to do was to familiarize doctors with the drug so that once they got approval they would have doctors already to go through with a drug raid to prescribe it like crazy. during this time richardson merril handed out two and a half million dollars to my pills to thousands of doctors in the united states in

canada. in germany going thousand advertising campaign is paying huge dividends the companies owner and executives were making fortunes overnight especially heinrich mukhtar going in thousand research director. during the war mokhtar served as a natty doctor developing vaccines which were tested on jewish prisoners in the book and vowed concentration camps many of whom died after the war mokhtar joined grin and nine years later he invented thalidomide and received a bonus for every thought in my pills sold worldwide the drug was such a success for growing and. that they started making money hand over fist and it was on a percentage of profit. moved from modestly our. to having so much money pouring in he could have bought himself a new mercedes every month but only sixty one really he's making twenty times his salary in turnover percentage so he's getting this massive massive bonus he's

become a ludicrously rich man on the back of the mod. what would a man want that with a history of wartime experimentation strong personality a massive income running on the cells of food money what would one expect that he would do when confronted with reports of nerve damage and other side effects but it is not surprising to me that there was not i rush to investigate to get to the bottom of it to put warnings on the drug to withdraw to take all sorts of course and so i did none of it i just focused on selling more the drugs and it really was some time to prescott the whole bit. and they knew it was going to go public but they finally backed off from the greed. i think hiding this catastrophe of folding in britain for the past fifteen years or

so was its connection to the e.u. and the ability to have the teller currency and yet passport rights into the e.u. you take those away and you have essentially greece on steroids and all those banks and the e.u. and america are going to attack the u.k. worth of play and drive into bankruptcy.

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i was. going. to get there. on nov twenty eighth one thousand nine hundred sixty one a day after the thalidomide scandal made headlines in west germany and sell announced it was withdrawing the drug from the market even if it's latest the spring of nineteen sixty one. had taken the drug off the market then they would have spared half the bites. meiklejohn glazzard his disability weren't so severe but as a young child nico had trouble adjusting to his short arms. as he finds in savings tissue skin too few could find on it it's complicated also if you know it as he's

feeling a fine been one vanished from the journey some of the most it's been a boring uncork so on for all to connote. one stiver from the fearless arts to underpin dolphin bone to care to notice how far. down from a hunched. body no least globish ninety four years. the only all know. who are. all all full in the evening. in england louise mason didn't see her parents and three siblings from. months at a time. i was that's a low most of the time my parents had other children there's no way that they could leave them with my nan it was my crime i was old so they just stopped coming.

i went home three weeks a year. for week by week in the summer christmas easter every quality was like getting to know your brothers and sisters again. in new york and to scratch you and alvin law's parents decided the best way to get their arm a son to cope with life was to turn his tones into fingers for hours album was given manual task to perform with his feet. i grabbed it having no arms it was a rather simple disability it's very complicated disability and i'd be lying if i didn't say it was a lot of work a lot of work a lot of time spent by myself very long very. very frustrated but i think it was the character that was built by my parents especially by my parents. that allowed

me to not really think that i was all that different. it's not an easy thing to get dressed but. again it goes back to the basic theory of my life and that is to i have someone look after me or do i look after myself. but more than anything i think it's a mindset you know that ok there's a lot of people in our world that have weighed bigger problems than i have so that i have to spend a little extra effort putting my clothes on so what. the moment i started using my tolls and my feet and my legs was the same moment i ceased to have a disability. in the united states there would have been fouls and of the lot of my babies like ellen law except for the actions of one woman dr francis kelsey

a canadian born doctor and pharmacologist had just joined the federal drug administration when she received an application to bring thalidomide onto the american market here was a drug that looked like it should be no problem but at the same time there was just a feeling to do something in the leader of the absence of the. cause of concern the application came from richardson merrill one of america's oldest drug companies known years ago for its best selling product vix cough drops merrill poured on the pressure they contacted the f.d.a. fifty times they went behind her back to those periods they complained a better and rushing the threatened global proceedings they pushed and pushed and pushed and she was resolute she was unbelievably tough. but i know that we're always most indebted to dr kelsey the relationship to the hope that all of us have for our children in august one thousand nine hundred two president john f.

kennedy awarded the highest civilian honor an american can receive to dr francis kelsey so kill sea really so you know it starts from june storm through the motor beginning.