December 18, 1970. Decades after the end of WWII, a Nazi doctor is on trial. Today is judgment day in a long, difficult legal battle, but this case isn’t about war crimes. The German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal is charged with the worst medical disaster in history: the Thalidomide scandal. The shoddily tested and hastily approved drug made its way into medicine cabinets around the world, and a decade after its release, the reality is becoming clear: Thalidomide is killing babies. Who are the heroes who brought down Thalidomide? And how did this disaster change pharmaceutical regulations forever?
Special thanks to our guest, Michael Magazanik, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Shock-Thalidomide-Scandal-Australian/dp/1922182095">Silent Shock</a>.
** This episode originally aired December 14, 2020. 
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