big_hoagie_eater t1_j9syp3j wrote on February 24, 2023 at 9:41 AM

Reply to comment by SayTheLineBart in The first mass innoculation of Salk's polio vaccine begins in Pittsburgh in 1954, the children were known as the polio pioneers. The vaccine was announced to be safe in 1955 by LoneWolfInCyberia

Let us not forget thalidomide! Yep, the good old days of quack doctors ruining lives… oh wait… that still happens all the time.

iluvgivingblowjobs t1_ja7idr4 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 12:41 PM

Thalidomide was stopped before reaching commercial sale by Dr. Francis Kelsey. She was personally harassed for not approving the anti-nausea medicine when she asked for additional testing/rejected incomplete findings. She’s a hero who prevented thousands of deformed children from being born due to her diligence to science. Don’t slander her work because humans didn’t have the scientific knowledge of what lead did to the body.