Alix Fano states in his book that, "thalidomide, which came out on the German market late in the 1950s, had previously been safety tested on thousands of animals. ... Fadali, M.D., in his book, Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame, reports: "Despite screening over half a million compounds as anti-cancer agents on laboratory animals between 1970-1985, only 80 compounds moved into clinical trials on humans. ... Actually, these so-called 'new' active agents were not so new: they are analogs of chemotherapeutic agents already known to work in humans." (25) In the book, Alternativ...

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The CBS investigative report "Harvest of Shame" was aired on television on November 26, 1960. ... The report was regarded as "the first time millions of Americans were given a close look at what it means to live in poverty" (Blair). ... Murrow did not mince words with his viewers, with his first words to the camera being "this [report] is about the men, women, and children, who harvest the crops in this country of ours: the best fed nation on Earth. ... Sadly, many of these sentiments have not changed since the 1960 airing of the report. ... This film was credited wi...

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Long before marijuana was even known to most of the American Society, hostility towards it became evident within the next two decades because of reports that offensive minorities were using the drug; Mexicans in the Southwest, Hindus in San Francisco, Syrians in New York, urban blacks, and jazz musicians (Berendt 21). ... But in 1938, the New York Academy of Medicine reported marijuana as a relatively harmless drug with no physically addicting effects and that it did not help in having any effect on the crimes of violence committed by people. ... In a pharmacy book written by the emperor Shen-...

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