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FailureToCommunicate
FailureToCommunicate's Journal
FailureToCommunicate's Journal
May 23, 2016
The bastard offspring of IG Farben continue to foul our world with poisons...
Thalidomide
"Adding to the dark shadow over the company, it is increasingly clear that, in the immediate postwar years, a rogues gallery of wanted and convicted Nazis, mass murderers who had practiced their science in notorious death camps, ended up working at Grünenthal, some of them directly involved in the development of thalidomide. What they had to offer was knowledge and skills developed in experiments that no civilized society would ever condone. It was in this company of men, indifferent to suffering and believers in a wretched philosophy that life is cheap, that thalidomide was developed and produced."
http://www.newsweek.com/nazis-and-thalidomide-worst-drug-scandal-all-time-64655
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