FDA 
-
SOURCE: New York Times
3/23/2020
The Unseen Survivors of Thalidomide Want to Be Heard
Historians say the lesson of thalidomide is one that society is still learning the hard way.
-
SOURCE: PBS
Accessed 1/21/20
Meet the Forgotten Chemist and His “Poison Squad,” Whose Fight Against Deadly Chemicals in Food Led to the Establishment of the FDA
“The Poison Squad reminds us that our current concerns about food safety have a long history."
-
SOURCE: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
4-12-18
Video of the Week: Why we need government regulation
by Vanessa Burrows
A case study of the FDA crackdown on the charlatan who sold Americans a bogus bill of goods.
-
SOURCE: The Boston Globe
7-27-17
Don’t limit the powers of the FDA
by Alison Bateman-House and Ameet Sarpatwari
It is important that we remember the lessons of history and preserve the tools the FDA needs for its vital mission.
News
- Graduate Student Strikes Fight Back Against Decades of Austerity, Seek to Revive Opportunity
- When Right Wingers Struggle with Defining "Woke" it Shows they Oppose Pursuing Equality
- Strangelove on the Square: Secret USAF Films Showed Airmen What to Expect if Nuclear War Broke Out
- The Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- US House "Parental Rights" Bill Threatens to Take Book Banning Nationwide
- New Books Force Consideration of Reconstruction's End from Black Perspective
- Excerpt: How Apartheid South Africa Tried to Create a Libertarian Utopia
- Historian's Book on 1970s NBA Shows Racial Politics around Basketball Have Always Been Ugly
- Kendi: "Anti-woke" Part of Backlash Against Antiracist Protest Movements
- Monica Muñoz Martinez Honored for Truth-Telling in Texas History