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Thalidomide: The Fifty Year Fight

May 16, 2014
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I am watching this as I type. I just thought it might interest some of you.

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  1. sdbast's avatar
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    May 16, 2014 7:08 pm

    Reblogged this on sdbast.

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    May 18, 2014 6:49 pm

    I watched it and reviewed it here. In short, I thought the programme went out of its way to omit details about David Mason’s treatment of his daughter that would show him to be less of a hero than they wanted to show him as. Mason left his daughter Louise in an institution as a baby and she remained there until age 17. This and other details can be found with a simple Google search for his name and thalidomide. His daughter and granddaughter (the latter followed me on Twitter after I made these remarks) are proud of his achievements, but the fact is that the other parents isolated him because some of them actually did care for their disabled children full-time, and needed the money.

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