The Woman Who “Turned Back a Plague of Old Testament Proportions”

The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

In refusing to approve the drug thalidomide, FDA scientist Frances Oldham Kelsey spared thousands of babies from deadly birth defects and revolutionized drug research. But was her legacy all good?



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