Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! On October 1, 1957, thalidomide was introduced as a new morning sickness cure. Everything seemed great until later the next year, when thousands of infants were born with severe birth defects.
We’re conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017
Hosted by: Stefan Chin
———-
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow
———-
Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: D.A. Noe, Nicholas Smith,
سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Bella Nash, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Fatima Iqbal
———-
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow
Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow
———-
Sources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15080764
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1021008016719
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/17997789/untold-story-thalidomide-babies
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18031152
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24400847_Chiral_Toxicology_It’s_the_Same_ThingOnly_Different
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4112512/
——
Images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#/media/File:NCP14053.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#/media/File:Thalidomide_enantiomers.svg
