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> Did you know that animals rights protestors are directly responsible for the
> Thalidomide drug problem all those years ago? The drug company made small
> amounts of it that worked fine when tested, but mass produced it using a
> different technique that resulted in a mixture of 50:50 good thalidomide and
> bad thalidomide. The scientists where worried about the nimal rights
> movement and hence didn`t test the mass produced product, leading to the
> disabled babies being born.
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> For those of a more scientific bent, the different between the good and bad
> forms was down to the fact that the small scale process produced one ismoer,
> the big scale produced half and half left and right handed isomers. One
> isomer had all the qualities of the desired drug, the other isomer had the
> bad effect. The evidence is out there if you want to find it for yourself,
> don`t just beleive the animal rights brigade when they start their ranting.
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