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“IT WAS A REAL WONDER DRUG —I KEPT WONDERING ABOUT IT”
Between 1965 and 1967, the Food and Drug Administration enforced stringent laws against the pharmaceutical industry, whose failure to properly research and test the drugs they marketed led to bodily harm and deaths. Morton Mintz, Herblock’s colleague at the Washington Post published an indictment against industry practices in The Therapeutic Nightmare (1965), which he updated in 1967 as By Prescription Only. Herblock admired Mintz, who had exposed the dangers of thalidomide and other drugs that caused birth defects in pregnant women.
“It Was a Real Wonder Drug —I Kept Wondering About It,” 1967. Published in the Washington Post, January 3, 1967. |