in the small town of germany a mother had taken a new drug called for little mite being developed by a local drug company can be grown into her husband like other grown in thousand boys had taken home a sample which he gave to his pregnant wife the baby would be the first of six rather than my baby's possibly more born to grin and thousand workers in the years ahead but their company ignored the early warning signals in their midst know that spirit good old women action didn't investigate didn't talk the mom didn't go to the hospital didn't look at medical records didn't contact experts there were multiple opportunities for group talk to cup holders asked short taken nine months after the first deformed baby was born grown and launched the linn abide on to the german market under the brand name contra gone good in thousand aggressive sales force whose motto was succeed at any cost continue to promote the drug cardigan they claimed was

a safe sedative especially for pregnant women suffering from morning sickness sales zoomed and a little my became the second best selling drug next to aspirin. but linda's shoulder 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 don't make it i think we took it up and i said i'm not 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 old folks bargain and they went from one small village to another and asked are there any children with short legs or shut down and those kids were hidden away at the time in the small villages and he asked and 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 diaz has a kid like this and the people burst into tears and and children and in 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 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 louise only learned about the circumstances of her birth by reading her father's bestselling autobiography i haven't got any arms and legs and my dad said it was like little bugs. in both 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 mom 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 bad 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 a rural cisco. years later alvin law learned how horrified his natural parents were when he was born ultimately it was the perturb 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 armas 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 wanted it and the next i went simplicity had a bath and dressed and hid and looked perfectly. well although in favor of taking him oh boy. 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 first father gave 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 and said that's 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 flitter my babies born in cincinnati where an american drug company richardson merrill had their headquarters like the german drug company merrill promoted the drug as completely safe even during pregnancy like grin and cell merrill had no evidence to back this up. merrill applied to the federal drug administration in one nine hundred sixty for approval to bring sullivan might 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 this

a lot of my disaster what merrill wanted to do was to familiarize doctors with a 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 was paying huge dividends the company's owner and executives were making fortunes over night 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 to live in mine and received a bonus for every thought in my pills sold worldwide the drug was such a success for growing them. that they started making money hand over fist and it

was all a percentage of profit. from modestly are. having so much money pouring in he could have bought himself a new mercedes every month one hundred 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 rushed to investigate to get to the bottom of it to put warnings on the truck to withdraw to take all sorts of course and so i did not it just focused on something more the drug and it really was some time to prescott hold of it. and they knew it was going to go public but they finally backed off and agreed.

dollars. dollars. is what i was doing. when we got carried away here we care the music with us. we are here we were dragged here. by you know going to get rid of those who are not go away who will not die quite. real the heart of what we do is the truth.

so we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent from august last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar

a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one in one business show you can afford to miss the one and only boom box. on nov twenty eighth one thousand nine hundred sixty one a day after the thalidomide scandal made headlines in west germany. it was withdrawing the drug from the market even at first latest the spring of nineteen sixty one. they had taken the drug off the market then they would have spat off the basis. of on glazunov disability weren't so severe but as a young child nico had trouble adjusting to his short arms. and his findings angsty

his skin too few could find on as it is complicated also as you know yet as he's feeling a fine been on venice from joining some of the most it's been about pointing them cups on for all to connote. a fairly sized under the kindle from politics i don't know how to. shut down for manhunt how about. you know at least globish. in england louise mason didn't see her parents and three siblings for months at a time. i was that's unknown 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 kansas cacho and alvin law's parents decided the best way to get their arm less son to cope with life was to turn his tones into fingers for hours alvin was given manual tasks to perform with his feet. granted having no hours of the day 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 is a lot of people in our world that have wave 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 thousands of a 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 theater 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 vic's cough drops meryl poured on the pressure they contacted the f.d.a. fifty times they went behind her back to those periods they complained about her and rushing to threaten the proceedings i 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 sixty two. john f. kennedy awarded the highest civilian honor an american can receive to dr francis kelsey so kill c. really you know. who the mother because. i come home from the playground one day my mom says honey good news you're going to get arms dear i mean you just remember a day like that right i thought we were going shopping you know arms or us i don't know. i was very confused they had hooks and they were made of metal and plastic and wood i mean i couldn't take off my shoes i wasn't allowed to use my feet can imagine how weird that was. so this became an interesting life half of my life was being elven law the kid with no arms the other half of my life was this terrible victim of the little guy. i lost my sense of who i was right stick these arms

around me i'm not all the body more all the models on how many are artificial or not. and why don't why why would i leave them when there was no good reason not one good reason. to use them for years i told them a you are doing me any good. and i was like shut up. i was a blunt it was. because we know what we're doing you don't. most those reminders don't use artificial limbs today but eileen cronan is an exception she wears artificial legs every day to get around. i was born with both legs from the knees down according to my mother i did it down to the legs pretty quickly. and if you have. you know artificial legs a lot of things go wrong you've got to go around conducting your life and yet you

know you've got a skin infection and you've got a place leg on when he couldn't do me i put the leg on i guess that's not always the best thing to do but. that's what i do. in march nine hundred sixty seven the owner and eight executives of growth all the german drug company were charged with criminal negligence premeditated bodily harm and manslaughter. among the defendants was heinrich mokhtar the natty doctor who made a fortune inventing fellow to mind. another chop green and it was amorous a nasty war criminal known as the devil's. chemist ambrose was convicted of war crimes he committed at auschwitz for which he served four years in prison but after the war the chemist found no shortage of employers including dow chemical j. peter grace and the u.s.

army's chemical corps before he became chairman of groan and sells board of directors in one thousand nine hundred nineteen seventies quinto had as the chair of a man convicted of mesmo slavery. a man who hired nancy war criminals like ambrose and was owner. verts was a member of the local nattie party in his hometown before the second world war a service for which he was handsomely rewarded by. use of it was the personal lawyer for a good one thousand or herrmann verts but in december nine hundred sixty six burger resigned suddenly became justice minister in the province where the trial was being held. defense lawyer. ended up with a government responsibility overseeing the conduct of the trial. away from the trial a secret deal was worked out between grown thousand herrmann birds and the

provincial government the secret deal was only revealed when the trial was dramatically stopped after two and a half years. in return for having all the serious criminal charges against its owner and executives dropped the company agreed to pay the victims lifetime pensions ranging from thirty to one hundred forty dollars a month as well as a small one time payment but in order to collect the money the little mite has had to agree not to launch any further suit against her and so taken as a whole the trial was or is the trial of until. well canada loudly celebrated its one. birthday and nine hundred sixty seven peace and maybe my family's suffered in silence a few parents had committed suicide others became alcoholics and some were having severe psychiatric. that's

a little my children were now school age but the question that plagued medical and educational authorities was what type of school should they enter some experts recommended schools for the handicapped while others advise the regular education system. in new york since the scatman alvin law's parents had run into opposition from the local grade school when they tried to enroll him school says wait he's got no arms he can't go to school they don't have such a thing as integration and our going what's integration he's a kid he needs to grow up go to school he needs to learn and it's to be educated he can write he can read what else do you need this school finally agreed to take alvin but soon afterwards he ran into a reaction his teachers expected and feared i came home and i was very upset because somebody had called me. but i've never heard that word before it was never used in this house. it was never used in this neighborhood but i go to school there was no kids called me so i had to run home and i was a little freaked out mom called me down and that's when our first remember hearing

those words that some people are born with black hair and some people are born with blond hair and you we're born. in england one hundred ninety seven families of the little my children are suing distillers the british company which had distributed the drug distillers made a ridiculously low offer of compensation and warned that the money would be paid out only if all parents agreed to the lifetime the five families refused the offer they were led by david mason and wealthy london art dealer and father of louise now i came under tremendous pressure i received threats on my life i had a police guard for a period of time i had anonymous phone calls i had anonymous letter. you know threats from parents her father as well publicised opposition to the compensation created problems for louise and her care institution up until then i was not one of the crowd but often. i was picked on. louise escaped the hostility of our

classmates when her father took her out to participate in publicized events for his campaign i was used as a as opposed to go. david mason's campaign succeeded in increasing by six times the drug company's original offer to the parents i did pay a heavy pot. shots. if i hadn't paid that price the third of my dues wouldn't have got the compensation when they got the compensation so i think it was well. unlike louise mason who rarely saw her mother during childhood yun shelter hill and formed a close bond with his mother from birth and her unwavering support and encouragement were critical in his career decision she never lost hope sure she said you everything you want to achieve in your life you're going to achieve it i have absolutely no doubt and when i when i turned up with it with the idea that.

that i wanted to be a doctor everybody told me you should not it's not a very good idea you cannot do that you will have severe problems she said son do your own thing if that's what you want to do you're going to match yon is now an emergency room doctor in switzerland i don't consider my condition as a major issue i mean i'm not a thalidomide interest sparked on the first but i'm a man i'm trying to be a good doctor and trying to be a good husband and i'm a father and a lover and i have short arms and that's it and if people have problems it's accepting me are i have problems to interact with me because i have short arms it's their problems not mine.

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us the benefit of tremendously economically through the cost of the wheels to the world by coming out about effectively giving up the power to impose structural adjustment on the list of countries over the eighty's and ninety's so from fundamentally doesn't understand how these are these are useful tools of u.s. imperialism of the facts right so it's not clear if anyone has a gripe is i mean it's true that these institutions are deeply unfair with an unfair to the us their own fair through to the majority world to the global south and that's really the reason we need to reform that. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in this population of all the conviction if you had any interest geisha out there what you'll see is a threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of

mind. make the money comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said to forward poor henri send a statement that i will be home about it the next day there's a culture of on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with saul the cry. of the system's twosome it will. live no course on the syria. rolls going to say of course a business with a must do to it look. this is the english folk who. want to show up on the front of us not all because i am.

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