Facebook post gets facts wrong about Thalidomide, FDA

Name: Facebook post gets facts wrong about Thalidomide, FDA
Uploaded: 2021-09-07T21:55:24.000Z
Duration: 1 min 27 s
Description: Thalidomide was widely prescribed to pregnant mothers around the world before it was shown to cause thousands of cases of babies born with disabilities, such as missing and malformed limbs. But the post gets a key fact wrong: The FDA never approved thalidomide.

Thalidomide was widely prescribed to pregnant mothers around the world before it was shown to cause thousands of cases of babies born with disabilities, such as missing and malformed limbs. But the post gets a key fact wrong: The FDA never approved thalidomide.

Posted 9/7/2021, 9:55:24 PM

TO THE NAMING.GOV AND SUBMIT A

SUGGESTION, THE FDA HAS APPROVED

FIGHTERS: I SEE SOME CRITICS OF

THE CENTER TRYING TO DISCREDIT

THE AGENCY HOWEVER, ONE VITAL

FACEBOOK POST GETS THE FDA'S

HISTORY BACKWARDS.

I'LL EXPLAIN.

TWO THE FDA APPROVED DRUG CAUSE

BIRTH DEFECTS?

OBVIOUSLY IS TRYING TO

DISCREDIT GATE OUT OF THE

AGENCY AS PFIZER: IT SAYS THE

FDA WAS APPROVED A DRUG CALLED

THAT WAS ONCE MARKETED WHAT

ENDED UP HAPPENING HERE?

THE POST IS RIGHT, THAT WROTE

DID CAUSE BIRTH DEFECTS IN

TRIALS WAS NOT APPROVED BY THE

FDA, AND OFFICIALS WHO WORK

WITH THE AGENCY IS CONSIDERED

AN AMERICAN HERO FOR HER

RESEARCH AND DISTRAUGHT THIS

BIOGRAPHY OF ERNEST ON THE

FDA'S WEBSITE KELSEY IS WORKING

HER DEMAND FOR RIGOROUS REVIEW

PROCESS WAS ACTUALLY CONSIDERED

A TURNING POINT IN AGENCY

HISTORY CONGRESS WENT TO REDO

TOUGH GUIDELINES FOR DRUGS TO

BE APPROVED BY THE FDA.

KELSEY, PRESIDENT KENNEDY

HELPED HER PERSONALLY HELPING

THE AGENCY TO PROTECT WOMEN AND

CHILDREN THAT FACEBOOK POST

GETS HISTORY COMPLETELY WRONG.

THAT'S WHY WE GET A BASIC OFF