I’ve mentioned various things occurring which turned out to have a rather devastating effect instead of what it was meant to do, in An Experiment, But a Big One and it’s a subject many know of and gets brought up here and there. The scandal in the 50’s and 60’s of disabled babies being born with missing or malformed limbs. Thalidomide.

Quite shockingly, they didn’t even test it on any pregnant animals in their trials, they didn’t think it was a necessary part of the overall safety measures before rolling out a drug. Clearly. And even when something very disturbing started to occur, it seems it took some time for the culprit to be identified. It still strikes me as odd that women are told not to even eat soft cheese, or go near certain things in case it will have a harmful effect. Yet when it comes to certain medications, it is encouraged, like the aforementioned drug and other ones more recently. But that one it turns out, completely circumvents the protection usually given by the womb and what we would call natures defence. It is said that when they finally did think to test it on animals, the rabbits showed the same defects, although it is also said that rats tested after did not. Either way, the human live trial subjects definitely should have been the smoking gun, but no, it took a further five years after it was authorised, to be pulled.

It’s known as a teratogen now (can cause birth defects), but then it did not even seem to register as a possibility. I guess who could have known it would break down proteins that control when genes are turned on or off. So, they literally gave women something that would code the growing foetus to just switch off the limb development and bypass it altogether. It is said that depending on when you ingested the drug would affect the outcome, as after a certain number of weeks, the limbs have been ‘activated’ so I guess couldn’t then be switched off, but was only capable of preventing them from activating. But once it was obvious something was going very wrong, many are left to wonder what took them so long in identifying it what it was. I guess maybe it was only really looked into and admitted, because it cause just a profound and unhideable condition, that it was not going to work in the long term to cause harm.

But the damage was done, and perhaps is where some people may have just started to notice that the ‘health’ service, didn’t actually know what they were doing. It was best guess and live trials, as it is today, under the guise of ‘controlled study’. What they don’t really tell you often, is what they are looking for or want to achieve with these drugs they roll out, so many things that could or should be relevant gets overlooked, ignored or just dismissed. Just as we see today, people can receive an awful lot of flack for going against what the authorities say or for just questioning the reasoning behind something. And if they say it’s safe, then why would people think any different? Well, I’m glad some people did, and I’m sure there are those who at the time may have worked it out, told others and tried their best, but we know what they are up against with things like that.

But back to the drug, and in my mind I still don’t quite understand how you have a drug, originally developed as a tranquilizer suddenly then being sold over the counter for morning sickness without proper testing. As a sedative, it calms the nervous system, reduces voluntary activity, promotes sleep and is a hypnotic drug they say. Sounds just like the type of thing you would give to someone with a developing foetus growing inside them doesn’t it? It also sounds like with those ‘qualities’ it may have been quite helpful for other projects, perhaps the Monarch one for example with MK Ultra. See my article, Do You Mind, There’s Something To Control for more on that. But instead of having a number of queasy pregnant women at that time, I’m guessing you actually after that drug came out, you had a number of sedated, partially hypnotised women going about their day and lives with a supressed nervous system. But as long as they aren’t puking, eh?

And even stranger is, they don’t even know why morning sickness occurs. They have no clue as to why the body sees fit to create nausea and vomiting during that period in some people, but thought enough of it to try and supress it at the drop of a hat when presented with an opportunity, rather than assess the real cause of it and perhaps manage it from there. Mind-boggling really, but not, once you see how it really works, it seems like just another day in the giant lab…

(c) K Wicks