In his defense, better scientists than he had come to the same conclusion regarding proteins. The ones who were still alive, though, had changed their minds by then.
His argument diatribe against Dr. Frances Kelsey, the FDA official who blocked the sale of thalidomide in this country (particularly the not-so-veiled hints about "women's intuition" and aspersions on her education) was also not helped by a quick perusal of Wikipedia's article about her. She had a doctorate in pharmacology, an MD, and twenty years' teaching & research experience before she was hired by the FDA in 1960. (And she's still alive, over forty years after JWC's death. Good for her.)
So all of that in the first half of the very first of the hand-picked editorials. I don't think I'll be digging any further.
Edited to add Dr. Kelsey's name, which I had unaccountably left out.
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argumentdiatribe against Dr. Frances Kelsey, the FDA official who blocked the sale of thalidomide in this country (particularly the not-so-veiled hints about "women's intuition" and aspersions on her education) was also not helped by a quick perusal of Wikipedia's article about her. She had a doctorate in pharmacology, an MD, and twenty years' teaching & research experience before she was hired by the FDA in 1960. (And she's still alive, over forty years after JWC's death. Good for her.)So all of that in the first half of the very first of the hand-picked editorials. I don't think I'll be digging any further.
Edited to add Dr. Kelsey's name, which I had unaccountably left out.