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FailureToCommunicate

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5. The bastard offspring of IG Farben continue to foul our world with poisons...
Mon May 23, 2016, 07:49 AM
May 2016

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

Gag me with a glyphosate enema Scientific May 2016 #1
$62B-cash. And you know they still have money above and beyond that. Staggers the imagination. n/t patricia92243 May 2016 #2
+1 Auggie May 2016 #13
And who does bayer pay to lobby for them in DC? EdwardBernays May 2016 #3
Bayer, the inventor of Heroin, tries to buy Monsanto, the maker of cancer causing GMO Feeling the Bern May 2016 #4
"Cancer-causing GMO's?" On what PLANET? Archae May 2016 #16
Not to mention Bayer's Codex Alimentarius - the TPP of world food commerce. forest444 May 2016 #17
What cancer causing GMOs? Why make shit up like this, what does it accomplish? n/t Humanist_Activist May 2016 #18
The bastard offspring of IG Farben continue to foul our world with poisons... FailureToCommunicate May 2016 #5
well, I can't top that NJCher May 2016 #6
There were lots of nuggets of truth in Gravity's Rainbow, but I know about this from personal FailureToCommunicate May 2016 #12
We had two Thalidomide kids in my neighborhood growing up as a kid Ichingcarpenter May 2016 #15
Luckily there were few in this country (thanks to Dr Kelsey). Where did you grow up? FailureToCommunicate May 2016 #20
DC area Ichingcarpenter May 2016 #21
There is a powerful PBS series on now called "Call The Midwife" that dealt with that subject in FailureToCommunicate May 2016 #22
They should hold out for the counter offer from Umbrella Corporation MowCowWhoHow III May 2016 #7
I expect the negative reaction to this to cause a singularity of anti-science stupidity. Odin2005 May 2016 #8
True. But I think you might agree that there is good science and really really bad science. FailureToCommunicate May 2016 #10
How fitting PeoViejo May 2016 #9
Really? LittleGirl May 2016 #11
Another US corporation Yupster May 2016 #14
I oppose this deal because it may negatively affect my region, we don't need more St. Louis... Humanist_Activist May 2016 #19
BAYER SORRY FOR NAZI ROLE tabasco May 2016 #23
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