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 tallinn ploys had taken home a sample which he gave to his pregnant wife the baby would be the first of six for the my babies 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 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 cover the whole disaster short no limit second nine months after the first deformed baby was born grown and launched the lynn abide on to the german market under the brand name contraband going 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 so little my became a 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 want it i think we have to get up and i said giving up. her husband soon contacted a professor of obstetrics dr viduka nd 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. he asked and rest. drones 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 we're at the end of the road there has been a very sad incident and then he went there and bring the dawn showed first thing he did was showing the picture of means that this is my son do yours have a kid like this and the people burst into tears and and children can imagine were. called to the day off right literally. in england it 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 had an exe and my dad said it was like a little flower buds. in know 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 unquestionable. that made wives and doctors were killing disabled children. in the hospitals in 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 perturbed 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 i took one look and i thought no wonder nobody wants. and the next i want simplicity had a bath and dressed and hid and took their toll. while all of the 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 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 thalidomide onto the american market and was allowed to conduct clinical trials on patients across the country now it wasn't a clinic 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 a drug so that once they got approval they would have doctors all ready to go through with the drugs ready to prescribe it like crazy during this time richardson merrill 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 thalidomide and received a bonus for every thought in my pills sold worldwide the drug was such

a success for growing and now that i started making money hand over fist. it was on a percentage of profit. from modestly are. 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 terms of a 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 rotting 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 but one is on the job to withdraw to take all sorts of course since i did not know that they just focused on selling more the drug and it really was some time tell the press got hold of it. and they knew it was going to go public but

they finally backed off and agreed. hillary clinton is a warmonger and the democrats are easily conned into spending trillions of dollars and the defense industry and why they control the house defense stocks went up they mean is there any clear indication that the democrats are the party of war. are suitable to. my little course under the sea their. roles here to stay the course of business with the most if. this is.

not a slow on the job on a slow motion. that i got to go in that deal but you also look at the model your body is good for all it's lost it's open from all the shows just the floor and so almost a. new tool in your must. do for. right.

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 if its latest the spring of nineteen sixty one. had taken the drug off the market then they would have spent half the bases. of on glazunov disabilities weren't so severe but as a young child niko had trouble adjusting to his short arms. his findings angsty his skin too few could bind on because it is complicated also because you know your toes he's feeling the firing pin on venice from purely some of the most at some point in pope's own for all to connote. one stiver who is a fairly starts to underpin dolphin politics at the notice how far. down from our hunched. you know least globish ninety four it is.

all not. full. little full. all. the way. in england louise mason didn't see her parents and three siblings for months at a time. i was left alone most the time my parents had other children no way that they could leave them with my nan it was my crime i was oh so they just are coming. i went home three weeks a year. for week mommy can a summer make a christmas i'm a big easter every holiday was my getting to know your brothers sisters again.

in your kansas catch one thousand laws parents decided the best way to get their arm listened to cope with life was to turn his tones into a single for hours album was given manual task to perform with the teacher. that granted having the larger the exact rather simple disability very complicated disability and i'd be lying if i did say it was a lot of work a lot of work a lot of time spent by myself very long and very afraid very frustrated but i think it was the character that was built by my parents especially by a lifer. 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 am 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 found the lead in 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 nature 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 of better in writing threaten the proceedings they pushed and pushed and pushed and she was resolute she was unbelievably tough. but i know that we're all at 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. and 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 what was right stick these arms around me on my own body more all the models and 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 tol may start 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

the other miners 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 life and yet you know you've got a skin infection and you've got to play the 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 margin 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 executive 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 green and sells board of directors in one nine hundred seventy one so in the nineteen seventies granito had as the chair of a man convicted of mesmo slavery. a man who hired nat c. 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 berger 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 as secret deal was worked out between granting thousand owner 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 suits against her and so taken as a whole the trial was or is the trial of until. well canada loudly celebrated its one. hundredth 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 drug. 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 once integration he's a kid in instability or 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. i had 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 blonde hair and you we're born. in england one hundred ninety seven families of thalidomide children were 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 a wealthy london art dealer and father of louise now i came under tremendous pressure i received threats all 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 institutions 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 personally botts. if i hadn't paid that price the

philip in my daughter's wouldn't have got the compensation when they got the compensation so i think it was worth. unlike louise mason who rarely saw her mother during childhood young children 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 she will she said cure 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 their 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 little martin for a spot on the first but i'm a man i'm trying to be a good doctor and trying to be a good husband and

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 problem it's not mine. thank you to the cheek a total more than the beach he cut the host for a team you'll be set it's not that he shouts this but only shooting against. him into. going to go see him i said keep included commissioning you a little bit of my squad but i'm going to want to have to be skinny to show. form

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their own fair through to the majority world to the global south and that's really the reason we need to reform the. dollars. dollars. dollars i mean a dollar a dollar is what i was being. when we got carried over here we carried the music with us. we are a year with a drag here. by you know going to get rid of those who are not go away who are not die quiet. real the hard work we do is the true.

nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in the spot placed before awful conviction if you had any interrogations out there what you'll see is 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 most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if our words. sound stay there i will be home by the next day there's a culture of on accountability and police officers who know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with solving a crime. kind of financial survival job today was all about money laundering first to visit this confession to three

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