It started with Darwin but it doesn't end with Darwin.

[The Barbarian]

From AI Overview:

Scientists were surprised by the devastating effects of thalidomide, particularly its teratogenic (causing birth defects) effects.

Show us a checkable source. Once again, you've shown us that AI summaries are only as accurate as the internet as a whole.

In the U.S., the FDA refused approval to market thalidomide, saying further studies were needed. This reduced the impact of thalidomide in U.S. patients. The refusal was largely due to pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey who withstood pressure from the Richardson-Merrell Pharmaceuticals Co.

She wasn't attacked by scientists, she was attacked by the pharmaceutical industry:

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From the evidence, most countries didn't actually test the drug for teratogenic effects.

 

[AV1611VET]

She wasn't attacked by scientists, she was attacked by the pharmaceutical industry:

Thanks for the QED.

From the evidence, most countries didn't actually test the drug for teratogenic effects.

Thanks for the QED.

 

[The Barbarian]

Thanks for the QED.

Guess how we know you don't know Latin.

 

[Shemjaza]

What does prophecy have to do about it?

If I ask you if I'll get burnt if I stick my hand in a fire, are you prophesying your answer to me?

Predicting behavior of fire and predicting the exact consequences and magnitude of earthquakes are very different things... especially since panic and overreaction to natural disasters can have legitimate consequences too.

Oh, well.

"That's what those victims in L'Aquila get for listening to us."

As I said, not perfect and never claimed to be.

 

[AV1611VET]

Predicting behavior of fire and predicting the exact consequences and magnitude of earthquakes are very different things... especially since panic and overreaction to natural disasters can have legitimate consequences too.


As I said, not perfect and never claimed to be.

What should they have told them in L'Aquila then?

 

[tampasteve]

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