Even to this world-class cynic, the notion of pregnant women (thousands of them) taking strong antidepressant drugs—with the full support of the conventional medicine establishment—is a shock. Yes, of course, there are birth defects, but don't worry—the women will have no trouble finding plaintiff's lawyers to "solve" the problem.
My latest HND piece examines this matter, and reminds those clueless women, as well as their clueless shrinks, about a former wonder drug called Thalidomide.
Those of a certain age may recall that whole tragedy, which included the FDA patting itself on the back so hard it nearly caused fractures for not approving Thalidomide. But you may not realize that even though that drug was never approved for general use, there was still plenty of it in the country in the form of physician's samples.
As such, we'll never really know how many Thalidomide babies we had right here in the USA.
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