Past Features
The Tragedy of Thalidomide In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the drug thalidomide caused an estimated 10,000 birth defects and thousands of fetal deaths worldwide. Read more.
The Rabbit Test
The rabbit test wasn’t just cruel, it was bad science. It took 48 hours, and it was expensive and inexact. Sometimes multiple animals had to lose their lives if the test was inconclusive.
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