Exactly and well said Davedaveuprite wrote:Exactly. It was a mis-prescribed drug. You can't blame a perfectly safe and efficacious drug for the terrible consequences of prescribing it to the wrong people for the wrong reasons. Its correct label application (from brand new) was for treating leprosy and myelomas, NOT morning sickness.johnnyboxer wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 7:27 pm Thalidomide was never a vaccine
It was used something that it was never designed for,which came about of a consequence of a positive side effect, hence why it was prescribed for women in their 1st and 2nd trimesters of pregnancy
Thalidomide is still in use today
As to the polio vaccine, there was one very serious incident in the 50s (the Cutter incident) where a pharmaceutical company mistakenly released a poorly de-activated drug, allowing actual polio virus into the population vaccinated. 200 children suffered or died. The correctly formulated vaccine against polio has no such impact and has saved thousands if not millions of lives.
So these are poor examples of defective drugs/vaccines, more associated with negligence than the original sound science that created them.
It's important to be precise and accurate when citing examples, and to make a reasoned and well-researched assessment of risk before judging the usefulness of vaccines.
Nothing wrong with thalidomide for its prescribed usage