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Article:
https://www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/news-releases/2018/after-60-years--scientists-uncover-how-thalidomide-produced-birth-defects/
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I know what they're going to say. They're going to say, actually are saying, that they're going to develop the new drugs not to do what the old drug, which is still a current drug despite how incredibly dangerous it is, did and does.
That's what the pharmaceutical industry was saying about then-new antipsychotic medications 20 years ago; they were marketed as not causing neurological problems.
It's really easy to market new drugs to psychiatrists, who are categorically loath to admit that anything that psychiatry does ever hurts people more than it helps them. When the new antipsychotic that I was prescribed and which I dutifully took for 3 years gave me muscle stiffness in my jaw so that I was losing the ability to chew solid food at the age of 30, a neurologist told me that he couldn't find anything wrong and my then-psychiatrist said "Maybe it would have happened anyway."
Don't you know? What crazy people say is always a delusion. Especially when you say "The system did this to me," not only is nobody going to believe you but you will be treated as if you are a bad, stupid, or incapable of understanding that everyone just wants to help.
I'm very skeptical that they're going to fix drugs that are chemically similar to Thalidomide, but it seems to me that the pharmaceutical industry does this over and over again. When something that it has produced creates an irreversible, tragic, excruciating disaster, it denies, then issues a worthless apology, and doesn't take the drug off the market if it can sell it some other way.
