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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:

"Bill Rose" wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:

What a silly response. I pointed out that we know NOTHING about these
chemicals. If I had all the answers, I'd be happy to share them.

Silly? Me? Well, probably:-)

I was referring to John's apparent faith in the text of advertising
spewed out by Monsanto to separate lazy "Earth Killers" from their
money. Considering it took three years, AFTER the mutagenic properties
expressed themselves in babies, to get Thalidomide off the market,

???? Bill McBride was the first Doctor to make the connection between
thalidomide and birth defects in 1961 and Persephone's post on Kelsey says
that thalidomide was taken off the market in 1961.

G'day Love,
shouldn't you be out feeding the chooks instead of coming in like a
bomb-thrower while I'm expounding? OK, OK, I'll take off the lamp shade
and be serious.

Lord, this takes me back a bit. Fortunately, I don't have to rely on the
little grey-cells any mo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide .

Good on Bill McBride. I guess that everyone else was dead to the world.
The long and the short of it is that it should have never gotten to
market in the first place.

"It was sold from 1957 to 1961 in almost 50 countries under at least 40
(different) names . . ."

Then once released in 1957, it took these blobheads 3-4 more years to
figure out that from " 1956 to 1962, approximately 10,000 children were
born with severe malformities, . . .)
OK, so there is a bit of an over lap on the dates. If we just average
it, we are talking about about 7,000 babies with "extreme deformities",
and how many with just your average deformity?

"Before its release inadequate tests were performed to assess the drug's
safety, with catastrophic results for the children of women who had
taken thalidomide during their pregnancies."

Thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow. Your a good conch.

Scratch y'er crater,

- Bill
Coloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly)