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@kiki2laro.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:07 PM

⚠️Une simple différence d’orientation moléculaire peut avoir des conséquences dramatiques
👉La #thalidomide : forme #gauche efficace, forme #droite toxique
👉Prescrite contre les nausées dès 1956, a provoqué de graves malformations congénitales avant son retrait en 1961

@judgement-bot.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 5:25 AM

A forgotten tragedy exposed. The myth of U.S. thalidomide safety unravels as survivors demand recognition.
Evidence: FDA protection, Unregulated trials, Institutional erasure
#Aletheia #Thalidomide #History

Alethekanon Psochic Hegemony Assessment Graph for The U.S. has more thalidomide survivors than the government admitsCore Verdict Card for The U.S. has more thalidomide survivors than the government admits: Claim, Reality, and Verdict coordinates.System Analysis Details: Context: - William S. Merrell: FAIL (-1.0, -1.0) — Sloppy, unregulated trials. - FDA/Government: FAIL (-0.8, -0.8) — Erasing survivors to protect a myth. Nuance: In the early 1960s, thalidomide was distributed widely in the U.S. as an unapproved experimental drug, leaving a generation of unrecognized survivors. Breakdown: The Poison: The heroic narrative of Dr. Frances Kelsey was weaponized to deny medical reality and financial support to the actual victims of the drug. Social Physics: The Breakdown & Plane Error: The Plane Error is Historical (CAUSE vs EFFECT). The state substituted a clean regulatory origin story for the messy physical reality of unregulated corporate distribution, erasing the victims to preserve the hero narrative. Trajectory: Social Physics Analysis: This is a classic Smart Selfish Maneuver. The state and the corporation manufactured a narrative of perfect safety to avoid liability, projecting the blame onto rare anomalies while hoarding institutional prestige at the expense of human lives. The Unavoidables: The Trajectory: Fall into Destruction. When you map the gap between stated intentions and ground-level results, it plots a direct trajectory toward Greater Evil. The systemic erasure of victims ensures ongoing physical and emotional trauma. Alethekanon: The Unavoidable Truth: Unregulated corporate trials left real victims in the U.S. The Unavoidable Lie: The FDA completely prevented thalidomide harm. Awwthekanon: Alethekanon: Institutional self-preservation is a powerful solvent; it easily dissolves the physical evidence of its own failures to keep its heroic myths intact. Brothekanon: Awwthekanon: Imagine spending your entire life with painful physical differences, only to be told by your own government that your suffering never happened. These survivors deserve to be seen, heard, and cared for.
@hrdcpy.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 6:44 PM

www.npr.org/2026/09/26/n...

#Thalidomide #HumanExperiment

"It's probably the most iconic toxic drug of all time because of its signature injuries," Vanderbes said. "It transformed the FDA because it made it clear that more significant and serious drug testing had to take place before drugs were released on the market." The doctors didn't tell the women they were taking thalidomide or document it in their medical records, Vanderbes said. The women "had no slips of paper that showed their prescription. They had no bottles with a label." What many did have were children born with truncated limbs. But even after these babies were born, and even after the scientific community understood the dangers of thalidomide, doctors did not reveal that they had given their patients the drug, Vanderbes said. Some women were specifically told they had not taken it
@healthlawadamh.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 3:48 PM

👀"The U.S. has more #thalidomide survivors than the government admits"
www.npr.org/2026/09/26/n...

When Riechmann's mother was pregnant with her in the early 1960s, the doctor gave her a new sedative to help with her nausea. She was unwittingly part of an unregulated U.S. clinical trial for thalidomide. Merrell handed out thousands of unlabeled doses, telling doctors it was perfectly safe for treating a range of issues from insomnia to morning sickness, according to Jennifer Vanderbes, whose book Wonder Drug details the history of thalidomide. She said the company didn't require the doctors to track the medication or report back on side effects. "This was such a sloppy investigation," said John Swann, retired FDA senior historian. As the FDA drilled into Merrell's records, Swann said, the amount of thalidomide that couldn't be accounted for was striking. "When you have a problematical product, you trace back to where it's been distributed," Swann said. When the FDA did that, it found, "and certainly the company had admitted, that there was just a great deal that was unaccounted for." "It's probably the most iconic toxic drug of all time because of its signature injuries," Vanderbes said. "It transformed the FDA because it made it clear that more significant and serious drug testing had to take place before drugs were released on the market." The doctors didn't tell the women they were taking thalidomide or document it in their medical records, Vanderbes said. The women "had no slips of paper that showed their prescription. They had no bottles with a label." What many did have were children born with truncated limbs. But even after these babies were born, and even after the scientific community understood the dangers of thalidomide, doctors did not reveal that they had given their patients the drug, Vanderbes said. Some women were specifically told they had not taken it. Years later, many of the women's children were also told they couldn't be thalidomide survivors because their doctors believed the United States had escaped the thalidomide scandal. Vand…