[Blood of Tyrants]

The FDA did not prevent the thalidomide problems that occurred in Europe theough sound scientific means and thorough but fair testing methods. The prevented it by slow walking and foot dragging and general bureaucratic malaise.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Picky, picky, picky.

I'm that the children who were spared crippling birth defects didn't care about the methodology used to prevent the importation of thalidomide.