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Behind the Bastards
It was referenced several times throughout the podcast as a source of information regarding the Thalidomide scandal, and the involvement of former Nazi scientists.
I'm gonna quote from the book Silent Shock by Michael magasinic quote Dr. Heinz Baumkotter was a notorious SS doctor at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp outside Berlin in addition to overseeing ex...
— Episode: Let's Talk About Thalidomide
Episode: Let's Talk About Thalidomide
It was referenced several times throughout the podcast as a source of information regarding the Thalidomide scandal, and the involvement of former Nazi scientists.
I'm gonna quote from the book Silent Shock by Michael magasinic quote Dr. Heinz Baumkotter was a notorious SS doctor at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp outside Berlin in addition to overseeing executions and selecting prisoners for the gas chamber.
from silent shock quote Another doctor's wife had a baby with shortened arms after her husband was told by Grunenthal that the medication would be perfectly safe if Taken during pregnancy later the woman pressed for a divorce accusing her doctor husband of having been too gullible in Munich
One doctor reported that he had dropped the drug because of absolute intolerability Among the side effects he noted was sight slight paresthesia or tingling or burning sensation often caused by nerve damage Responding to this report Grunenthal's Heinrich Mukter conceded in a letter on 3rd April 1956 that thalidomide seemed a very strong sedative which if used in high doses over a long period could cause disturbance in the nervous system